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Regarding your second sentence: I'm not only motivated by things that have a direct, measurable consequence for myself. I'm willing to go to some inconvenience and expense for issues that mainly impact others, or impact society as a whole, or impact future generations. Not necessarily a lot of inconvenience and expense -- I'm not claiming to be some paragon of altruism. I just want to point out that if you're asking only about direct impact on myself, you're ignoring part of what motivates me. |
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I didn't ask about others. I asked about what impacts you if you were to register. |
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To me? Nothing, I expect. No advantages. Probably no disadvantages, though I may get some spam from the bookshop or unwanted notifications from the social media thing ("Do you want to rate this book"-stuff) when I finish a book.
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Although I read a news story recently (link, in Norwegian) about a Norwegian citizen using an app developed in Slovakia, and the data from that app ended up in an American company which sells data to US law enforcement, among others. So it's not completely farfetched to be concerned about data flowing from an obscure ereader to powerful entities which I might not want to trust with my personal data. Last edited by hildea; 12-08-2020 at 03:22 PM. Reason: typo |
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People not wanting to provide their reading habits to whichever companies because they don't trust/like them seems reason enough for me not to register an ereader.
Isn't that what we're doing when choosing a smartphone (iPhone vs Huawei vs Pixel), email provider, search engine etc? At least for me, it's a negative act: I choose company A because I don't want to be with company B. Some people are fine with giving up their privacy, others aren't, but we do it all the time, I think. |
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...otherwise, what is it then? |
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There are lots of interesting discussions to be had around this issue:
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It appears Jon's definition of "harm" or "trouble" relates to having one's data hacked or stolen (Jon, feel free to correct me if I've misinterpreted your posts) while others have different or broader definitions. |
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Here is may take if you are that worried about your privacy, don’t have a cell phone, and don’t have or ever get on the internet. Other than that use some common sense and enjoy life.
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Maybe the watching of the movie Conspiracy Theory (Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart) and see the scene in the bookshop concerning the book Catcher in the Rye would change some people habits
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