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

Re:HP printers try to send data back to HP about your device... by klingonopera on Monday September 16, 2019 @07:53AM (#20983142)

I absolutely disagree with these data collecting practices, but if your data is e.g. worth $5, that may have been already deducted in the printer's sale price.

If you have two feature-equal printers, but one doing data-collecting and $5 cheaper than the other, which one do you think will be sold out first?

I wish that manufacturers be forced to also show default/required data requirements on their products similar to how they already display minimum/recommended hardware requirements. This would at least increase consumer awareness of the issue, at best maybe abolish it entirely...

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Re:HP printers try to send data back to HP about your device... by colechristensen on Monday September 16, 2019 @05:50PM (#20988919)

Printer hardware is usually sold at a loss or near a loss in order to focus profits on ink/toner sales. That's how you get the ridiculous DRM on ink.

Force manufacturers to allow third party ink and to disclose data collection and you get a much different, better for the consumer, printer market.

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