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Old 12-28-2019, 01:02 PM   #43
alec123
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
For the record, I asked Kobo about this change. The response was:

"If you have data sharing disabled now we will still collect reading stats locally on the device, but they won't be sent to any kobo servers."


And there isn't any way to turn all the stats collection off.
This is good to know. Thank you for checking with Kobo.

From a privacy standpoint, it would be comforting to have a patch which would periodically delete this information from the database, or even an option from the Calibre side in the "Kobo Utilities" plugin.

Even though Kobo says it won't be sent to their servers now, many of us have been burned by companies accidentally disregarding software privacy check boxes and/or policies during software updates, etc. It's much better to remove the possibility proactively.

Looking in my reader's database just now (Kobo Mini running 4.19.14123), there were many lines in the activity table from the last few days, and almost none from before upgrading to 4.19. So it is true that the data collection is now turned on even if sharing is disabled.
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