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List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots

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586 points prawn | 1 comments | 06 Jun 17 22:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | 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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beefsack ◴[07 Jun 17 02:59 UTC] No.14503388[source]▶
It's likely any tracking mechanism would be implemented inside the hardware, not as part of drivers.
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1. bo1024 ◴[07 Jun 17 14:58 UTC] No.14506958[source]▶
(Disclaimer - I know nothing about actual printers.) Really? I would expect that things like location, IP address, time and date, etc would be the most important privacy threats and would be implemented in software. Although I agree that hardware tracking is still an important issue that open-source drivers wouldn't solve.