They finally lost me completely when I loaded a music video marked “adult” for language and it demanded I upload ID on an account that was legally an adult.

I made that account in 1999, it’s not even from this millennium, and they still derp out on it. I’m getting close to 50, at this point, and the only thing ads, age verification, and extreme right wing content on top of state sponsored disinformation campaigns will get you is a blacklist.

We should have seen it coming, I mean they used to have the “Don’t be evil” motto, removing that was a declaration of intent.

I scrape from the command line, Google doesn’t even tough a web browser, leech the webm/webp/whatever content and transcode it into mkv/mp3 to watch locally, offline, with no ads or tracking.

They do this after they stop letting download what you paid for and transfer via USB.

I downloaded my whole library, cracked all the DRM and dumped the AZWs to ePubs as soon as they announced that, and sent in an account deletion request. When they made it a requirement to use their “cloud” to do anything with your Kindle I knew it was over.

We all knew it was coming, any way to screw us they’ll do it, they don’t need customer service anymore since they killed most competition and people are stuck with Amazon or Piracy.

Personally I’ll send an author a donation if I can’t buy direct from them in DRM-Free formats.

I was looking at a Boox Go Color to add in support for my manga and comics as well as my library of novels but with Android getting really creepy I’m not so sure I want to be tied to what I see as a dying ecosystem again because Boox uses it as their OS.

The Pine64 stuff looks like a good option, but it has no expansion, which was always a problem with Kindle since even their 128GB internal flash of the PineNote (that si much larger than any Kindle version) isn’t enough to load my manuals. That’s actually why I have the 1st Gen Kindle Keyboard, and not the DX, with so little storage and no expansion option the PDF support and a screen large enough to make things locked to formatting for 8 1/2 x 11 readable was pretty pointless.