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Kobo e-readers collect telemetry on your sideloaded books, and there's no official way to opt out (github.com)
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Your Kobo Knows Every Book You've Ever Read

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

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[–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I haven’t turned the internet on on mine for over 2 years now lol

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    i have multiple times my Color 2 because it was buggy as fuck (I bought it on release) and they added a nice fix for an issue.

    1. I'd open the device to keep reading a book and it would be at some random page and not that page I had closed it at, this seems to have been fixed and it was super annoying going back 100 pages to find where I was at.

    2. When the device was put down with the cover folded back, you could not start it again without moving the cover aside to get to the power switch, they fixed this by letting to use a page turn button as a power switch if it was switched off, excellent fix for an an annoying problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    I had (and still have and learned to live with it) this issue where out of nowhere when I flip one page, the device goes on a rampage and starts mad flipping next pages very quickly. It would throw me off by at least 10 - 15 pages then the only way to stop it is to lock the device. Go back in and start hunting for where I was. It’s so annoying. One update didn’t fix it, so I gave up.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Mine basically never connected again after Pocket was shut down. I feel like the only one around who didn’t think it was another Mozilla bullshit project, it was neat to bookmark some longer reads and then have them offline on an ereader.

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