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Kobo e-readers collect telemetry on your sideloaded books, and there's no official way to opt out (github.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/books@lemmy.ml
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Your Kobo Knows Every Book You've Ever Read

See https://github.com/seandheath/koboctl

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[–] 19 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Well. I got a kobo because of the easy aideloading. Got lazy and just started buying through their store.

Had a exit strategy of keeping it offline and sideloading everything with calibre. Guess it's time to go down that route

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Option 2) Use QuillOS/Inkbox (they changed their name and I don't remember which is the new name). FOSS OS for many Kobo devices

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    This is super interesting! I've been using KOreader forever, but this looks cool. According to the last post on mobiread, the dev is still working on it for Kobo. Has a new update coming soon. I'm intrigued.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Doesn't that kinda kill the point of a Kobo? I mean you can sideload everything with Calibre on a Kindle and on other readers.

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