03-23-2018, 03:44 AM | #16 |
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03-23-2018, 03:46 AM | #17 |
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Perhaps they do in some places, but not in the UK, and hence not for me personally.
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03-23-2018, 05:39 AM | #18 | |
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Plus, it saves power and after a while my Paperwhite stopped showing me adds on the homepage (if I remember correctly - it was a long time ago). |
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03-23-2018, 09:09 AM | #19 | |
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03-23-2018, 09:13 AM | #20 |
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My old Kindle was made well before the ad nonsense. Now there is a box on the splash screen
asking me to turn on wifi to get ads. It's registered and has been registered under 3 different names. The other half used it for a while. The names, of course, are not complimentary to Amazon. |
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03-23-2018, 07:51 PM | #21 |
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I'd recommend to keep your kindle offline and to sideload your books, even those bought from amazon: that's simple and effective.
But if you don't want to permanently disable your internet connection you can use iptables (or use the plugin mentioned earlier) to block amazon servers. It will work but for how long? if they use servers in other ip ranges you're screwed. Another way would be to block connections to most IP subnets and only allow a few services you'd like to use (wikipedia for example). That would be safer but only work if the internet use you intend to do with your ereader is limited to a few servers/services. |
03-24-2018, 06:40 PM | #22 |
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If you are that paranoid, I suggest dumping your Kindle.
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03-24-2018, 08:21 PM | #23 |
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That was a bit snarky and not very nice. It is reasonable to be concerned about your privacy. Just because you aren't personally, doesn't mean that others aren't.
As we have found out for the Kindle (and other things), assuring your privacy is not a simple thing. But because this thread has evolved and we find things are not so simple, and in turn some more complex solutions have been mentioned, that does not warrant being called paranoid - just for asking the question in the first place. |
03-25-2018, 12:18 AM | #24 | |
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03-25-2018, 12:20 AM | #25 |
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03-25-2018, 03:24 PM | #26 | |
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03-25-2018, 04:26 PM | #28 |
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But, can you do such without jailbreaking? Not everyone jailbreaks or can jailbreak. So it kinda should be able to be done with stock firmware.
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03-25-2018, 04:41 PM | #29 |
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Nearly all my books are sideloaded, but the only ads I get from Amazon reflect what I purchased or looked for on Amazon.
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03-25-2018, 05:05 PM | #30 |
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If you have concerns, your best bet is to register your device so all the functions function and then turn off wifi. Then sideload all your books. Amazon won't have a clue what you have on your device. You can even sideload updates to the software. I did that for an ereader with a broken wifi.
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