My last couple have been used, off Craigslist. So slightly older models. That also means they are less likely to have the phone-home nonsense. And I refuse to ever own an inkjet again.

Currently running a 2013 HP consumer B/W, and a 2018 Canon Color laser. Neither care about internet.

Why the hell does a printer need to “call home” for anything anyway?

Man that really grinds my gears. So now I need to isolate my printer in a VLAN and only open a port for my server to access it so it can be shared there, to keep it from accessing the internet.

I’ve found refurbed HP lasers (older ones, that have NICs but before this web crap) - they’re looking pretty attractive…

Ah, interesting. I can see it.

Britain seems to have addressed it, but… Their system requires honesty on the part of anyone finding anything, plus they require documentation of antiquities if you sell/buy them.

Hahaha, but they never had a concern before??

Funny how Europe is finally starting to notice this issue.

Us “tinfoil hatters” (as we’ve been called) have been decrying the privacy issues since the 90’s, but everyone just dismissed us as crackpots.

Why is it illegal?

The violation they target users for is sharing a video, and that’s usually through a file sharing service like torrenting.

Think of it this way - whatever you watch online via a browser you’re already downloading. Or via an app.

You know, it really tweaks me that torrenting is associates with piracy, when it could’ve become the defacto way to share files between users, if OS devs had just included the protocol in the OS (looking at you Android, but Windows and Apple too).

I’ve often questioned why it wasn’t…

Wow. I don’t remember this at all.