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Re:E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance by dugite-code on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @12:24AM (#38623042)
With a jailbroken kindle you can install the BBB (Block Big Brother) filter on the firewall (it's running linux under the hood after all):

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2425330

Alternatively like me you can just remove the 3g modem in it's entirety:

https://peekread.info/tech/20210120-removing-3g-modem-from-a...

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Re:E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @12:32AM (#38623087)
what happens when you buy Kindle in EU, I would think when you first turn it on they would have to ask if you want to be tracked and if not would have to fuck off.
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Re:E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance by dugite-code on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:42AM (#38623514)
That's a good question I couldn't find anything in my cursory searches. Knowing Amazon because all the focus has been on Web browsers and cookies there might not be much available on the ebook front atm.
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