🐘🕊Oct 19
Terence Eden

🆕 blog! “Improving PixelMelt's Kindle Web Deobfuscator”

A few days ago, someone called PixelMelt published a way for Amazon's customers to download their purchased books without DRM. Well… sort of.

In their post "How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked" they describe the process of spoofing a web browser, downloading a b…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/improving-pixelmelts-kindle-web-deobfuscator/
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#Amazon #drm #ebooks #kindle #python

Oct 19 at 11:35amShare on Mastodon
Show threadMichael LynchOct 19
@Edent thanks for your work on this! Is your source available or are there legal issues with sharing it?
Show threadTerence EdenOct 19
@michael I discuss this at the end of the blog post.
Show threadMichael LynchOct 19
@Edent ah missed that thanks!
Show thread⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️Oct 19
@michael @Edent the original author not interested in picking a licence?
Show threadTerence EdenOct 19
@falken @michael
Looks like the author added one later.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45635809
Glad to see iteration on top of it! I did swap the repo to GPL3 before privating... | Hacker News

Show thread⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️Oct 19
@Edent @michael good news every one!