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pammyfromthesticks@mander.xyz to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 days ago

Your Printer is Snitching On YOU!

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Your Printer is Snitching On YOU!

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  • adarza@lemmy.ca
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    if you don’t wanna watch a vid… eff has posted several articles over the years on the ‘tracking dots’ of printers: https://www.eff.org/issues/printers

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    I should inspect my black & white printouts for the yellow dots. Alternately I guess I could remove the color cartridges.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

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      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

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    Even this cutie pie?

    • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world
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      That one will just stab you in your sleep, so you should be good.

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    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

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    Just get a laser printer already

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      I have a color laser printer. :/

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        You can use a blacklight to see if the printed page has the tracking dots.

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          It’s an hp. I just assume it does.

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    I have a printer?

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    Oh, paper printers

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