Your Printer is Snitching On YOU!
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Your Printer is Snitching On YOU!
Color laser printers have contained hidden surveillance technology since the mid-1980s. Xerox and Canon developed Machine Identification Code, a system of mi...
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.
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
Even this cutie pie?
That one will just stab you in your sleep, so you should be good.
Just get a laser printer already
I have a color laser printer. :/
You can use a blacklight to see of the printed page has the tracking dots.
It’s an hp. I just assume it does.
Oh, paper printers
I have a printer?
Can’t watch YouTube.
How do black and white laser printers print yellow dots if there’s no yellow toner?
Update: they don’t https://dys2p.com/en/2022-09-print-scan-traces.html#mics-eigene-untersuchungen
You not using newpipe/peertube etc?
Not trying to force you to do something you don’t believe in your don’t want to use, but generally I just type the title in and video shows up. Links used to copy paste and work but havent for me.
Only downside is if you switch in and out of PiP mode, or rewatch a unfinished video 12 minutes in YouTube will ban your IP for like 6hrs. Which is trivial with a VPN. I think switching from full video to pop out mode essentially refreshes the video load, and starting a view mid way through must be suspicious or bot like.
NewPipe doesn’t work. It asks me to login to google.
I do use PeerTube.
aka MIC (Machine Identification Code)
https://dys2p.com/en/2022-09-print-scan-traces.html#mics-eigene-untersuchungen
Dys2p did a great write up about it