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Your Printer is Snitching On YOU!
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Just get a laser printer already
I have a color laser printer. :/
Oh, paper 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
Only the dots in a certain place in a certain pattern are used to track the printer. Any other dots aren’t useful for that purpose and can be ignored. If you printed a solid block of yellow at the correct location, however, the tracking dots might be indistinguishable.
Nowadays though, they are wifi-ied. So they are ratting you out in other ways too, not just the paper markings, you can bet.
I should inspect my black & white printouts for the yellow dots. Alternately I guess I could remove the color cartridges.
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
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2026
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