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FastCompany: E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance (www.fastcompany.com)
submitted 11 months ago by dominiquec to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No ned to pirate. Just send your ebooks through Calibre to remove DRM and put them on your privacy friendly* reader. Maybe don't buy them all from Amazon in the future.

* may need some work. PocketBook doesn't track you, Kobo is pretty good too, Onyx must be debloated to not send telemetry (like any Android device), Amazon devices are Android too?

[–] DarkPassenger 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can you point me to a good guide to set up calibre to remove drm?

[–] clubizarre 2 points 11 months ago

This is the method I use for my Kindle (and some Google Books) purchases.