- I'm neither disputing the verbiage on the button, nor the ignorance of users. None of those affects the fact that you did not own the ebook - it was licensed to you.
What is silly is actually knowing the whole 1984 episode, and still believing you owned the books.
- > No, it hasn't.
Yes, it has. They made it clear right when they launched the store.
> I couldn't care less what their ToS said about it
You're welcome to not care about whatever you feel - your concerns and reality are orthogonal.
This became big news a long time ago:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/17/amazon-ki...
- > Why not let Amazon take a stab at turning things around, then?
The point the article is making is that iRobot's bad decisions are the reason the company was failing. Blaming regulators for a poor acquisition outcome may be fair, but they were a very minor part of the outcome.
- "The FTC didn’t bring a challenge, but nevertheless, in 2024, Amazon and iRobot called off the deal."
How did they shut it down?
- Article mentioning Lina Khan on HN? You're going to see a lot of nasty comments.
- Will this affect my ability to install KOReader?
- > But after they decided the ebooks were actually just license to read
They decided that when they launched the Kindle. It's always been that way.
- Eh? Not sure what you mean.
I picked a random book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/hemlock-silver-t-kingfisher/022...
It's DRM Free, and available as an ePub. Other than Kindle, what device does not accept ePub?
- Gentoo Forums still uses a phpBB board. Very active:
- Did you try on a clean profile?
- > as though holding software companies to a standard is somehow a bad thing?
I think some feel they are being held to extremely high standards.
As someone who's avoided the drama, and is a power user, Firefox has been great to me, and continues to be so.
- Obligatory thread from yesterday:
- OK, to be frank, it seems like people are needlessly crazy paranoid.
I agree with:
https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=46316763
278 comments, many very angry, and no one can clearly articulate how privacy is being compromised because of the AI features.
On a project whose source is available.
Insane.
- > Anything that makes it easy to accidentally send local data elsewhere is a privacy issue.
How is it "easy" if nothing is sent unless you configure the AI?
What I'm asking is: If I do a brand new profile, default configuration, how can any AI related feature send anything that is of privacy concern? If you don't set up an LLM provider, it has nowhere to send to.
I may be wrong, which is why I'm asking in the thread. So far, no one has shown what the problem is.
- Thanks for the link - I see it's not that much more than Waterfox.
Getting to the discussion at hand, which of those pings are AI related? I didn't say FF isn't making network calls.
- He's open about the priming chapter concern:
https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...
- That's a UX issue, but I keep hearing complaints about privacy.
- For most of his life, he was not openly gay.
- That's Dan Ariely. I don't think there's any known example of Kahnemann fabricating data.
OK:
https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-changes-licensing...
"Amazon has revised the text when purchasing a Kindle e-book on its online store. You do not own the book you bought but are licensing it. It used to say “By clicking on above button, you agree to Amazon’s Kindle Store Terms of Use.”"
...
"This is not a policy shift from Amazon for the US; they are more upfront about it now. Amazon has always licensed the digital content to users, so anything purchased does not mean the user owns it, they just bought a license"
As the article points out, the change in verbiage was because of a new California requirement that this should be made explicit. It was always a license. They merely changed the verbiage on the button to conform to state rules.
Edit: I have to say, after a bunch of rather pointless arguments today and yesterday on HN, it disappoints me that the average commenter is quick to jump to unsubstantiated conclusions. Both times the facts were trivial to lookup.
Not the HN of yore.