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mama9243@literature.cafe to Books@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago

Kobo e-readers collect telemetry on your sideloaded books, and there's no official way to opt out

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Kobo e-readers collect telemetry on your sideloaded books, and there's no official way to opt out

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mama9243@literature.cafe to Books@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago
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GitHub - seandheath/koboctl: koboctl is a Go CLI tool that provisions and hardens Kobo e-readers over USB, automating the installation of KOReader, NickelMenu, KFMon, and Plato while locking down telemetry, disabling unnecessary services, and enforcing family-safe DNS turning a stock Kobo into a secure, vendor-free reading device in a single command.
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koboctl is a Go CLI tool that provisions and hardens Kobo e-readers over USB, automating the installation of KOReader, NickelMenu, KFMon, and Plato while locking down telemetry, disabling unnecessa...

Your Kobo Knows Every Book You’ve Ever Read

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

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    The method took me doing it twice for it to work, but I wouldn’t consider it an obvious option. There was previously just a skip/do it later.

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      Yeah it is scummy that there is no option in the UI

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