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>>anothe+(OP)
If only there were companies with similar philosophies toward basically every other consumer product. Imagine, just imagine:

- TVs not stuffed with spyware and "smart" features that stop working randomly!

- Appliances, ditto

- Cars, ditto

Although now I feel like I'd better go buy like 10 Brother printers, because it's only a matter of time till some private equity firm decides the company is leaving money on the table by not requiring you to subscribe to the CEO's OnlyFans to get ink and buys it out to squeeze out some revenue from the brand before poisoning it.

>>paulto+xF
Actually, it may already be too late. I just searched amazon for brother printers, and it looks like they've rolled out an ink subscription.[1] This is clearly the harbinger of doom---remember when HP did theirs and immediately made their printers worthless?

[1] https://www.brother-usa.com/supplies/ez-auto-reordering/refr...