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Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] some_designer_dude 34 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Give them time and they’ll suck too. Nothing is safe from enshitification, as they’ve just shown us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Oh I believe it but no doubt. But right now even with this totally shitty move and I mean totally shitty move. Brother atleast their older models still accept 3rd party cartridges. Everyone buy those! Fuck the new stuff.