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List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots

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586 points prawn | 3 comments | 06 Jun 17 22:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.471s | source
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bo1024 ◴[07 Jun 17 02:52 UTC] No.14503345[source]▶
FOSS seems to be the best, if not only, solution. (As usual, when it comes to freedom and privacy...)
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1. clishem ◴[07 Jun 17 02:54 UTC] No.14503359[source]▶
Do you mean FOSS printer drivers? Are you sure that would make a difference?
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2. bubblethink ◴[07 Jun 17 03:35 UTC] No.14503554[source]▶
No, FOSS printer hardware, firmware and software. Obviously, nothing mainstream like that exists. It's not just the dots. Since printers are connected to networks, and there have been countless printer vulnerabilities, it's a worthy cause in its own right.
3. bo1024 ◴[07 Jun 17 14:52 UTC] No.14506899[source]▶
I know next to nothing about printers, so I'm not sure of anything!

But what I'm seeing in the discussions here is a ton of uncertainty about what models even use tracking methods and what methods they use. So I'm guessing this is mostly because we don't know what the software in these printers is doing.