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Originally Posted by JSWolf
How is this any different then buying eBooks from Kobo or Amazon. You buy an eBook and they have that information. So how can you buy eBooks without the company you are buying from knowing you bought it? It's no different. Then if you go to Overdrive and download an eBook, again, more data is collected. Sure your Reader isn't properly activated, but these companies are still going to get your data. So what's the point of not properly registering?
What privacy are you going to have not properly registered vs buying eBooks from the same place be it Amazon or Kobo? So really, not properly registering is just a false sense of security as it really doesn't mean anything.
Also, with Kobo, there is a chance that with every firmware update that one of them will not work with the fake registration and you will lose everything in the database. Is that worth the risk for a false sense of security?
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At least when you buy them from those places and sideload them, the company can't track when/if/how long you read them/what you highlight, etc. But it's not much different, so that's why I don't buy books from those places. And I don't plan on updating the firmware, especially if Plato ends up being enough for me.