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Originally Posted by JSWolf
You cannot get away from having your data available on some server someplace. The companies you get your gas/electric from has it online. You back does as well. So why is it you will let some companies you do business have a lot more data about you sitting on a serve accessible to the Internet yet you feel registering a Reader is too invasive?
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This is the equivalent of arguing you have to unlock your door sometimes so why lock it at all. Yes you do have to give some information to some people, you do not and should not have to give it to anyone who asks just because they ask. There is no service that any ereader company provides that necessitates them having all my information, especially if I am not buying from their eshop.
You keep asking why people don't want to give out their information, but in countless posts in countless threads beyond just this one (as you regularly challenge anyone seeking not to register their Kobo) have never given a good reason for why they should give their information over.
You've tried "if you skip registering it'll potentially cost you all your books", which falls flat on its face when you consider that anyone not registering is also not buying books from Kobo and is in point of fact likely getting the freebies from places that do not require you to register, and so they have a back up. It also ignores that in the history of Kobo there's been, I believe, a single firmware update that changed its directory in such a way that it caused these issues if you had skipped registration. Which is, to me, a fairly minimal risk especially when the group being affected isn't going to lose anything from Kobo aside from reading stats.
You've tried "but you can't use 'x' or 'y' feature", which also falls flat on its face since not all users will care about those features and anyone making the decision to not register while also being smart enough to follow whatever guides are out there to assist them in such endeavors are also smart enough to weigh the pros and cons of if those features are important to them.