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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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HP insists you must use their cloud printing service, covers USB port with sticker (yiffit.net)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Companies been after the new gold for ages. Any excuse to mine your data.

That way they can lock you in making it difficult to transition. All those icloud users locked into the Apple ecosystem. They make it easy and then you are stuck.

Be careful with your data.