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HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing (boingboing.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! Removing this sticker will reveal a consumer-friendly communications port that will deprive HP of even more money than it's already milking you for with overpriced ink!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m kind of surprised they just didn’t remove the usb port entirely

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Design revisions are expensive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah but they could save 50 cents a printer, how can they just pass up those savings?