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Also, how common is telemetry on e-readers? Like will it send your reading list for targeted advertising somewhere? Because that's what I'd worry about if you download illegally shared e-books
Never heard of telemetry on e-readers.
Personally I keep wifi turned off on mine anyway to preserve battery life and keep forced updates away. The only time I had wifi on was when I set the device up because that requires an account (for kobo readers). There is a quite technical way to bypass that though as far as I know.
Edit: After reading up on it, it seems like there is actually telemetry on kobo devices...
Time to find a way to disable that shit
I was curious about the topic myself. In case you didn't have any luck, I found this. Seems pretty simple to solve honestly. Wild that an ereader has telemetry to begin with, but at least it's fixable.
Oh yeah, I found that too. I just wasn't certain whether this still works, considering the original post is from 2011.
i never go online with kindle (don't need wiki ) but once i had to. it immediately downloaded anything from the amazon list (of bought/dl media) including reading samples. da** annoying.
i deleted everything on amazon.
then amazon stopped sending actual files when i bought a book. even when specifically transfer to pc or via usb was selected (can't remember the phrase). support was useless. i stopped buying books then.
never found out what the problem was/is.
but i certainly don't put the kindle online and let amazon upgrade the firmware in the background.