01-17-2020, 02:18 PM | #46 |
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Libraries are generally very good about keeping your borrowing private, I would trust a library much more than I'd trust a retailer.
But all that goes out the window with eBooks. It is not just the library you are dealing with. You will be dealing with either Amazon or Adobe too, since these third parties are the ones who add DRM to the library eBooks you borrow via Overdrive. Don't think that Amazon and Adobe are just giving away their service of adding DRM to the libraries for free, out of the goodness in their hearts. They are getting something for it. I doubt that is payment from the libraries (but I don't know that for a fact), but I'm willing to guess that what they get in return is information. As much as they can manage to get ... about the borrower. You! This is valuable for them, since they can consolidate and repackage it, then SELL it. You will never be able to have a zero footprint if you buy/borrow eBooks, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to limit the footprint that you do leave. |
01-17-2020, 02:41 PM | #47 |
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We'll call me naive, but how does opening an acsm file to access a library book on pc reveal any thing to Adobe, except that I borrowed a book?
And if I borrow the same book without a pc, using kobo to overdrive directly, then Adobe are totally out of the loop. And Amazon are out of the loop in both cases. I don't believe that ade is able to run some covert background analysis plus phone nome routine that goes unnoticed by malwarebytes etc.. |
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01-17-2020, 04:30 PM | #49 | |
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01-17-2020, 04:57 PM | #50 |
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And talking about privacy and ADE: you don't need an account with Adobe to be able to retrieve a DRM epub from an ascm file. You can auth the computer without an adobe id.
This way an UUID is generated for that computer and you'll loose the hability to read the same ebook on other devices, and, you'll loose the hability to read the book again if you remove the software, even if you install it again later on. I wouldn't recommend this to anybody, unless they're buying a book that want to deDRM and they don't want an adobe id at all. In that case it works pretty well. |
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01-18-2020, 02:06 AM | #52 | |
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01-18-2020, 03:02 AM | #53 |
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01-18-2020, 03:13 AM | #54 | |
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the only info I have given to kobo is whatever they got from an initial sign in with Google, to use the device, and a library name & library card number to use overdrive. ( and I have set up pocket but that's irrelevant to this privacy debate) I have received no emails from kobo which suggests that google has not even given them that Last edited by stumped; 01-18-2020 at 03:18 AM. |
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01-18-2020, 05:26 AM | #55 |
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Pocket gets all the info about the web page and it's converted on their servers. It's a third party company possibly bought by Mozilla. We have no idea how secure their servers are or what they might do with gathered information.
There are certainly Countries where you'd be mad to use Pocket. |
01-18-2020, 05:42 AM | #56 | |
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Wow, if they are that fussed they can incentivise/bribe me & I'll put it all on goodreads for them FYI pocket on Kobo will not work if you used sign in ( to pocket) with google, so you have to create a new, different pair of pocket credentials - more fragmentation. Also, Dropbox on Kobo is by design restricted to accessing only a specific app folder in one specific dropbox |
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01-18-2020, 11:39 AM | #57 |
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TBH, there is no way deal with eBooks (that you buy or borrow) without some information getting out. So don't even bother as it's not worth the hassle.
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01-18-2020, 11:55 AM | #58 |
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To have no digital footprint whatsoever, you need to not use digital methods. For me, that would mean no more reading at all, an option I can't accept.
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01-18-2020, 12:04 PM | #59 | |
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so you've not heard of this thing called paper, yet people make books out of it, supposedly, and you read them totally OFFLINE. also there's a thriving market for used ones , sold for cash at charity shops / car boot sales.... just use a false name |
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