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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Amazon also changed the way their Kindle Cloud Reader (the Kindle web app) works so that it now displays an image of text instead of HTML text. This appears to have been done for anti-piracy reasons, but it has the knock-on effect of breaking accessibility browser plugins that people with disabilities rely on to make Kindle books accessible.
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Amazon changed that a couple of years ago. It used to be possible to extract DRM-free copies of Kindle books that were read using the Kindle Could Reader using a script that accessed the browser's storage. It was floating around the Internet but was never part of the popular DeDRM tools. I was aware of that technique and thought that it might come in handy if Amazon ever blocked the other methods commonly in use.
I suspect that Amazon's awareness of that capability led them to switch to their newer locked-down and inaccessible KCR system called "karamel" internally.