"HP printers try to send data back to HP about your devices and what you print"

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[–]OCNoob1 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hmm, i'm going to have to add some manual block lists to my pihole.

[–]Drewski 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not only that, modern printers add hidden forensic dots to identify printed pages.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

HP's "Customer experience improvement program" is anything but what they named it. Unfortunately, every company is using analytics is some form. There must be thousands of databases, with pretty much the same stuff in them, by now.

[–]Ian 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Stuff like this makes me consider if HP is subjectively evil. Unfortunately they're just greedy at the cost of their consumers and we live in a world where such is encouraged.

[–]m68k 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I stopped supporting HP a long time ago, and the fact they pretty much charge you "by the page" (not ink) is a business model everyone should avoid. That's DRM for you, you don't own what you buy, just become another sucker by statistic.