This new Kindle jailbreak uses Amazon’s own ads against it

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Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority


TL;DR

• A new technique has emerged for jailbreaking Kindle devices, and it is compatible with the latest firmware.
• It exploits ads to run code that jailbreaks the device.
• Jailbroken devices can run a superior reading app, as well as a Game Boy emulator, Wordle clones, and more.

Amazon’s Kindle line of e-readers remains one of the most popular ways to read ebooks, but in terms of the software, the company has moved further and further toward locking things down. Community developers have devised several methods to jailbreak the devices, but Amazon has always been quick to release patches to block them.

However, there is now a new method to jailbreak Kindle devices that works on the latest firmware. Ironically, it does this by taking advantage of the built-in ads that Amazon charges $20 to remove.




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