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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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    I used this one click package to install the other readers, as for telemetry I have Wifi turned off unless I do updates and I am not signed in.

    https://github.com/NiLuJe/kfmon/

    They don’t collect info on sideloaded books, only pages turns. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=360224

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