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lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked

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How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked

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As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)
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    This needs to be an open source script! I would love to use it to actually own my purchased books.

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      They’ll modify it soon enough. Amazon will respond to only one thing - everyone stops buying ebooks from Amazon.

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        Understood, but I “purchased” books over the years I’d like to keep as mine.

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          many ebooks from Amazon are drm free you can just download and pull them. or just pirate them and not worry about it

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            I second this. You bought it. Somewhere, somehow. Amazon doing a rug pull under you is their fault, not yours. Go pirate without any guilt.

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        https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTZjMDliOTUycDY4cHVlZjNhZTlnbHZwOGgwZTNodHAyZzFpeWxxamk4Z2VscGFyZyZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/7JgYv9FobG1HzAO8BA/giphy.gif

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      Just buy ebooks from sites that don’t fucking you over in the future. If you already have a kindle its annoying but pocketbooks and other eReaders are right there.

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        Or send money straight to the author and pirate the book

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          Or just pirate the book. Anyone who makes their work only available by giving an evil, corrupt corporation money can go fuck themselves.

          Actually, scratch that, send them an email from a burner account that can’t be linked to you telling them you pirated their book, and why, with absolutely no money. Just a massive fuck you :)

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            You ok there fella?

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              No, not really. One of my greatest joys is dominated by a megacorp and everyone is just fine with it.

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