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Your Printer is Snitching On YOU!
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this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2026
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Thinking more about your (and TU Dresden's) idea, circumvention would be a nice ability to have as standard functionality in linux printer drivers.
I wonder if inkjets do this too. I have only heard it in the context of color lasers, and that's all the wikipedia page says. But IDK why they wouldn't also add it to inkjets.