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Shared404 on Aug 25, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of dat...

> the "invasive" data mentioned in the post doesn't seem particularly invasive to me[.]

Attempting to get the subnet IP address? That seems pretty invasive.

From the article:

> Attempt to get the IP address on the local network (a 10. address, which was incorrect for me)

eclipxe on Aug 25, 2020 [–]

What, exactly, will that do for them?

Shared404 on Aug 25, 2020 | [–]

That's my point. The data is both A) Invasive and B) Pointless, unless trying to do things they shouldn't on your network. But they still collect it for some reason.

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