Not just no but Hell No.

As I understand it, you can’t just real a url from the code and enter it into your browser. You have to have their app installed on your phone to read it with, which then somehow sends to google to unlock the page. So obviously the code contains the IP address/fingerprint of your desktop and/or a code linked to that instance of the captcha page. The purpose is so they can link your desktop browser to your phone = to your identity, for the giant database. Linking all the devices you use to your ID has long been a goal.

There’s a looooong thread on mobileread forums about how to do this. Amazon changed their ebook format a year or two ago to make it harder to remove the DRM, but someone usually comes up with a new way to do it every time Amazon tries to foil them.

This is the thread I have bookmarked – I haven’t kept up with it all since I quit Kindle back when they removed the “download & transfer” option to let us save our own purchased property. But I think their newest format has been figured out now, so if it’s possible to do, the instructions should be in that thread.

This latest problem wasn’t with playing videos on FT, it was with finding and fetching the feed/list of videos for your subscribed channels. IOW if you directly pasted in the url for a video it would play just fine, you just couldn’t fetch the list of available videos directly from FT.

Very true.

They’re kind of vague about it but it sounds to me like you’d have to have some stuff posted online under your real name for it to find and match to. So if you’ve only ever posted things under various pseudonyms in social media, etc. it could match those up to each other, but not to your real identity.

Well I would be one of those noobs, not having used signal or the like before. :) Camera app–are invites done via a QR code then? And we don’t use FB or any of that poison. I doubt I can get anyone to try it out anyway, but good to know about it just in case. Use case would be either an old no-sim phone or android tablet connecting to wifi or wifi hotspot, and/or a laptop/desktop from home.

Thanks! They also have a desktop and a terminal version, nice.

A search for that term brings up about 10 different things from crypto to herpes, nothing about a messaging app

That seems like a better idea, but it 's the same old problem where you’d have to get the people you want to communicate with to switch from Signal to that.

I don’t know how to get one and shouldn’t have to, just to use an app like Signal. Why isn’t there one we can use without having to give them a phone #?

So it’s still yes, you do have to have a phone number.

I thought you had to have a phone number to use Signal.

Many flip phones also work as MP3 players (some better than others) so those 2 could be combined in one device, depending on the features you want.

Unfortunately spam texts and calls are the bane of having any kind of phone. :( “Do not disturb” settings that allow contacts only can help but don’t fully solve the problem.

Thanks :)

Oh, I guess it could be a combination of that and the dystopian novel.

Why that date? Is it from the book 1984?

OK? I was responding to your original statement “Find me one with an unlimited hotspot plan, and I’ll switch tomorrow.” since that made it sound like you didn’t have any other criteria.

It’s a Sunbeam Wireless F1 Pro.