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~~Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals~~ [see comments] (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Brother deny the claims:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/

via https://startrek.website/comment/15279250

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Brother deny the claims: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/

[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 2 points 2 days ago

It looks like to me as some redditor got bad quality third party ink and blamed it on firmware. Some karma whores picked it up, as dogging on printer companies is sure way to gain some free updoots.

And now Louis Rossmann picked it up and the lie spread further.

We live in a post-truth society.