[sasaki]

Don't take it too personally. JSWolf has a habit of asking unsolicited, irrelevant questions in many threads, even -- it appears -- after a moderator has expressly forbade him from doing so.

I've actually been aware of this behaviour since my device unboxing since he trolls similarly every person who asks about privacy. I'm not taking it personally, just beginning to be annoyed. Arguing with him is a good training for everyday life. I plan to have that debate more often. I simply hope that reasonable arguments can help him understand better the world in which he lives.

I won't ask you to stop thinking I am a psychopath, because you seem to really hold on to it.

This was mostly a joke. Experimenting things.

There is no signing of an EULA because you don't ever enter your address. A fake name and imaginary email address is not agreeing to an EULA.

This is possible. I didn't try the whole registration process so maybe they don't ask you to sign a EULA. I would be surprised though. I prefer no to sign anything anyway, even with a false email. It's a posture. Everyone should read their weird documents. Doing so for dropbox some years ago really made me aware of the nightmare : they stated the documents you upload on their servers don't belong to you anymore, but to them and they can do anything with it. This should just be ignored in my opinion.

I expect a library needs a real email address, mine does, though there is no subscription, you just need a local real address too.

I think you already know that protecting one's email adress is far from being enough to protect privacy. I give my email adress to people and enterprises I trust after I read their privacy policy. I'm not really used to buy things on the web. When possible I prefer to buy things in physical places.

I haven't done this myself, but have you tried enabling sideload mode immediately after doing the full factory reset?

Yes I did as I said in the first post, but it didn't work because of my firmware version that doesn't support it. I didn't flash the firmware yet, trying Koreader and Nickel menu first.

The downside is you'll have to download and install firmware updates manually, but I doubt that'll be a problem for you, since you're already looking into SSH and hosts file edits.

I actually prefer to do things manually. It gives me better control over my device and the pleasure to learn things about it. I'm actually pleased to discover the underlying system is linux. I may open a topic for help about hosts file edit if it ends up being more complicated than editing one line. As I said I'm not confident enough in my knowledge in DNS and related stuff.