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This is mostly about Amazon Kindle, but it also mentions Hoopla, an e-reader app. Presumably this applies to things like Overdrive as well. I'm satisfied with m
by cratermoon 3y ago
This is mostly about Amazon Kindle, but it also mentions Hoopla, an e-reader app. Presumably this applies to things like Overdrive as well. I'm satisfied with my Kobo, epubs and Calibre.
- gnicholas 3y agoThe scariest part of the article (for me) was about information being packaged and sold. In that regard, the article was not about Amazon, since it is not alleged to have done this. Of course, Amazon is huge enough that they can profitably use reading history to sell you other things. But it would be worse if they were also selling off your private reading history.
- hedora 3y ago> But it would be worse if they were also selling off your private reading history. Google makes a similar argument, but I am not convinced. They still give information to abusive governments, and their in-house infrastructure for monetizing your data is state of the art. Plus, data breaches are basically inevitable. Even if they weren’t, some percentage of FAANG will eventually have a few down quarters in a row and sell access to the data to the highest bidder, or be acquired by an oligarch.