The Ownership Ban Is Happening
#privacy
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I should inspect my black & white printouts for the yellow dots. Alternately I guess I could remove the color cartridges.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots
That’s why a lot of printers refuse to print in black and white when color cartridges are empty.
There are exceptions but it is the case for a large amount of printers
Could this be solved with software that would just print its own random yellow dots to make the code unreadable? At the cost of wasted ink
Nowadays though, they are wifi-ied. So they are ratting you out in other ways too, not just the paper markings, you can bet.
Oh, paper printers
Just get a laser printer already
Even this cutie pie?
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/3dbb88b0-33b2-4ce4-a2ca-83700177fbc5.jpeg">
That one will just stab you in your sleep, so you should be good.
if you don’t wanna watch a vid… eff has posted several articles over the years on the ‘tracking dots’ of printers: www.eff.org/issues/printers
I have a printer?
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I should inspect my black & white printouts for the yellow dots. Alternately I guess I could remove the color cartridges.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots
That’s why a lot of printers refuse to print in black and white when color cartridges are empty.
There are exceptions but it is the case for a large amount of printers
Could this be solved with software that would just print its own random yellow dots to make the code unreadable? At the cost of wasted ink
Nowadays though, they are wifi-ied. So they are ratting you out in other ways too, not just the paper markings, you can bet.
Oh, paper printers
Just get a laser printer already
Even this cutie pie?
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/3dbb88b0-33b2-4ce4-a2ca-83700177fbc5.jpeg">
That one will just stab you in your sleep, so you should be good.
if you don’t wanna watch a vid… eff has posted several articles over the years on the ‘tracking dots’ of printers: www.eff.org/issues/printers
I have a printer?