🚢 Does the Boox Palma frequently contact its mothership?
I bought the Boox
Palma in January 2024 and I am thrilled with it. I got the white
one. Its better than the black one. This is not up for debate. If you
think otherwise, you are likely incorrect (just kidding)
However, I wasn't thrilled to discover that Boox is a business
registered in China (own by Onyx International Inc). Therefore, when I
got the device, I took some steps to protect my privacy:
I did not create an Onyx Account and thankfully it's not mandatory to do so.
I used a secondary Google Account to log into the device, allowing me to download from the Google Play Store
I added my NextDNS details to the Palma, allowing to me track its DNS queries and also block the ones I dislike.
After over 3 months, the statistics from NextDNS are reassuring.
Thankfully, the Boox Palma is not one of those devices that
constantly is calling home to its mother ship. This, I feel, is
largely because I did not create an Oynx Account when I setup the
device.Â
NextDNS has summarised the analytics for my Boox Palma.