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I should inspect my black & white printouts for the yellow dots. Alternately I guess I could remove the color cartridges.
if you don’t wanna watch a vid… eff has posted several articles over the years on the ‘tracking dots’ of printers: https://www.eff.org/issues/printers
Could this be solved with software that would just print its own random yellow dots to make the code unreadable? At the cost of wasted ink
Nowadays though, they are wifi-ied. So they are ratting you out in other ways too, not just the paper markings, you can bet.
Only the dots in a certain place in a certain pattern are used to track the printer. Any other dots aren’t useful for that purpose and can be ignored. If you printed a solid block of yellow at the correct location, however, the tracking dots might be indistinguishable.
Even this cutie pie?
Can’t watch YouTube.
How do black and white laser printers print yellow dots if there’s no yellow toner?
You not using newpipe/peertube etc?
Not trying to force you to do something you don’t believe in your don’t want to use, but generally I just type the title in and video shows up. Links used to copy paste and work but havent for me.
Only downside is if you switch in and out of PiP mode, or rewatch a unfinished video 12 minutes in YouTube will ban your IP for like 6hrs. Which is trivial with a VPN. I think switching from full video to pop out mode essentially refreshes the video load, and starting a view mid way through must be suspicious or bot like.
NewPipe doesn’t work. It asks me to login to google.
I do use PeerTube.
aka MIC (Machine Identification Code)
https://dys2p.com/en/2022-09-print-scan-traces.html#mics-eigene-untersuchungen
Dys2p did a great write up about it
