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I can see both sides. The companies are clearly making money grabs with these kinds of things (don’t forget the current state of printer ink), but there’s also
by orev 7y ago
I can see both sides. The companies are clearly making money grabs with these kinds of things (don’t forget the current state of printer ink), but there’s also a huge market filled with counterfeit or shoddy products. Those filters on Amazon are cheap for a reason — they don’t actually filter anything. If the companies priced them reasonably, there wouldn’t be a need to go to these lengths to force people.
- kalleboo 7y agoPrinter ink is going in two directions, on one hand you have HP and their "ink as a service" and remote-disabling cartridges when you stop paying, on the other hand you have Brother and others with ink tank systems that have zero DRM and you just squirt ink into.