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I've bought eBooks from Amazon, who has my name and a profile about me that extends far beyond that. I've borrowed eBooks from my local libraries. Overdrive has all that goes with that. Probably Adobe, too for those same eBooks and my CC subscription. I've bought a few books over the years that were not DRM protected. I've stated above that I have lots of accounts that I have registered and paid for that can and do track me far more than I'd prefer, though I do have some browser extensions that limit it a little. I have a cell phone that tells providers where I am most all the time. I stated this above.
If the Kobo Clara HD I ordered ever arrives, which I'm now thinking might never happen because it may be replaced soon, I'll almost certainly give them a legitimate email address and buy some Kobo eBooks. It'll be easy enough to turn wifi off beyond that. They do, after all, state in their Privacy Policy that they reserve the "right" to track and sell our data. But as I wrote above, wanting to limit that is not as binary as you and some others here want to make it. We can draw lines where we draw them and feed the beast less than the maximum. It may not change much, but we can do some things to limit what's done with our data, particularly since these companies don't pay us to use it. At least we're trying, being aware, not giving in completely to all this. Those who choose not to care are welcome to choose not to care.
You could spend months reading about the details of this and its massive implications in our lives written by well regarded academics, industry people, and political figures. There are students and professors in top universities doing exactly that. I don't think these people are devoting this much time to these issues so that they can steal eBooks. There are larger issues in this world as I'm sure you've noticed recently. My point is that these concerns are what motivates most of us who don't like being so aggressively snooped on. It's not about wanting to steal. It's more about not wanting to be stolen from and what that does to the world we live in. YMMV, of course. But just because some of us regard this differently than you might does not make us worthy of criminal suspicion without evidence.
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