I broke my Kindle Paperwhite on purpose to get rid of ads, and it mostly worked

Go to Amazon's website and make sure you're logged in. Go to Manage Your Devices. Select Kindle. From the dropdown menu, ...

This Kindle bug accidentally gives you a way to kill ads - no jailbreaking required

Usually, when Amazon pushes out software updates for its Kindle e-readers, they bring new features, performance improvements, ...