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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)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Proton, Mozilla, Brother

Its not gonna stop there

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

The issues with each are very different:

  • Proton - CEO sucks and for some reason is sucking up to Trump; products are still good
  • Mozilla - PR team sucks, though AFAIK the product is still fine, and you can use a fork to avoid the PR/legal team
  • Brother - actively screwing you
[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Every single company.

All it takes is your favorite company to suddenly be run by a CEO who wants to maximize profits or increase shareholder value, or worse, think they're God's Gift to the World. Or in the flip side, they're fighting for survival so they have to make scummy decisions to keep afloat.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Pro tip: don't have favorite companies, have favorite products. And don't assume the next gen of your favorite product will be good.