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HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly (www.ghacks.net)
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[–] PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Euuhh does nobody realize Brother has existed for like 20 years and doesn't pull all this HP shit?

You were right until around 2020 when Brother, too, started to roll out firmware updates outright blocking third party toners or even worse, making the printers intentionally print like crap with third party cartridges:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131

Now, that even Brother has turned to the dark side, I really don't know what printer to recommend other than older/used Brothers with firmware updates disabled.