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DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

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286 points pavel_lishin | 1 comments | 4/1/2025, 9:11:00 PM | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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banku_brougham ◴[4/1/2025, 10:06:00 PM] No.43551826[source]▶

Do black and white laser printers produce tracking dots?

Also, what is the meaning of this tracking, must every corner of our lives be tracked just on principle?

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1. axus ◴[4/2/2025, 2:57:00 PM] No.43557412[source]▶

https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...

List hasn't been updated since 2017, was probably one guy making inferences from FOIA requests. We'll have to wait until the next time a Chinese university publishes some US government secrets.