You can not buy a fucking color printer without writing somewhere around 5 paragraphs and declaring this is an extremely principled issue in your life.

Printer makers have no legal obligation to surreptitiously fingerprint every page printed.

Frankly, you are simply stupid if you believe this. As with the rest of the anti counterfieting approaches this is done pretty obscurely.

This is why I will not buy a color printer. No, it’s not paranoia (neither sensible paranoia nor crazy). It’s ethics. I have enough dignity and self-respect to refuse to feed my oppressors and buy something that is designed to deceptively work against me.

Yeah okay but most people have a life that requires printing stuff once in a while. In fact, everything that has ever come out of my printer has been easy to trace back to me based on the content alone. Wow! I’ve even looked at my own printer’s tracking dots under a microscope. Should I shit my pants and cry on lemmy about it like you?