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Re:The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place i... by soco on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:15PM (#25037726)
It's quite a challenge to suck more than HP printer drivers, really.
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Re:The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place i... by eitland on Monday November 09, 2020 @03:36PM (#25039562)
That would have to be the iPhone app:

Detects my printer just fine, then spites me by refusing to do anything until I give away my email address.

No way! I'll probably try to find a guerillamail equivalent and use that to sign up if I need to use the app.

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Re:The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place i... by joering2 on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:21PM (#25037806)
But that's only after you download 380 megabytes of a "driver".
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