In addition to tracking the printer’s online or offline status, page count, and ink levels, your rented printer will look at the types of documents you’re printing (e.g., PDF, JPG, Word), the types of devices that initiated the print job, “peripheral devices,” and other “metrics” related to the service, the All-In Plan’s terms read. This is on top of the personal information HP collects upon initiating the plan, like your location and your company name (if you have one). By signing up for the service, the terms say, you “grant to HP a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free right to use, copy, store, transmit, modify, create derivative works of and display [your] non-personal data for its business purposes.”
Good guy HP: Trying to save the planet by making their printers so bad no one wants to print anymore. 👍
Good way to get banned from large corporations. I know my compliance department isn’t going to trust language like that.
I would assume this offer is meant for the lowly peasants like us, not other big corpos. Though most likely the printer industry is struggling, and they are gasping at straws, trying to mine data in the hope they can monetize it somehow
I imagine this is only for consumer-grade printers. HP’s business-class devices are usually purchased under a contract.
TIL HP stands for Hostile to Privacy.
You’d have to be a complete mental deficient to go out and consciously decide to buy a brand new HP product in 2024. Every single day it’s more bad publicity for HP and yet they don’t receive any consumer backlash that lasts longer than the breath required to complain about it.
Ok boys, 10,000 copies of goatse. Grayscale to save money.
“You are out of magenta”
“I have a black and white printer.”
Fuck you, out of magenta.
I’m still all-in on never owning a
HPprinter again. I don’t need this in my lifeUnless you are a business getting printers on commercial leases, do yourself a favour and just buy a Brother laser printer and stop having issues with printers and start saving money as well.
Alternatively, if you print as rarely as I do, just go to Staples or a print shop. Cheaper and I don’t need to set aside any space for a printer.
Can confirm, my brother laser printer has lasted 14 years and the current toner cartridge was purchased 6 years ago.
I haven’t owned a printer in, like, 10 years and I know I’m not an outlier. This sort of shit isn’t necessarily going to bring me back into the fold.
Time to snif out the packets and replace them with cool things like
“BDSM_training_Gangbang_at_HPHQ_tuesday.pdf”
And the like. We could even just flood their database until they decide to block us.
I can’t foresee any way that could get abused to hell and back. No sir. Not even a little bit.
To pay for this privilege too? HP is insane. Avoid like the plague.
That’s what I was thinking! I never paid for a printer subscription service, and I never will, but they are really telling me I get to pay them to take all my data as well? If this is marketed at businesses in any way its a privacy nightmare, which would probably mean even if they wanted to use them they couldn’t due to sharing confidential information. I also wonder how many companies won’t know this until they already use them and realize HP has data on them that now holds them liable.
Soon they’ll have an ad supported model that prints ads on empty spots on the page and as a banner at the bottom.
Oh fuck please dont give them ideas
Do “printers” have an approval rating? Because I bet it’s low.
I’ll stick to my Brother laser printer. Bought it during the pandemic and still haven’t been through an entire toner cartridge. Never had an issue printing either.
I got it for work documents that needed signed and mailed and such. And I like to print out flow charts and the like for big projects so I can reference them without having to pull them up digitally.
So what happens if on the off chance someone decides to use the government purchasing system for COTS purchases and convince the SCIF to use one of these HP printers, and then try printing TS//SCI or other highly classified national security documents on the printer? Asking for a friend.
Honest answer? The person doing the printing is likely penalized at best, and HP get a slap on the wrist at worst.
Damn HP! My three year old laptop that I mostly de-crappified was just updated with a pop up selling HP extended warranty. They made it look like a system dialog, there was no “quit”, and “send personal data to HP” was selected by default.
I had to explicitly select to not sending data, explicitly select to make the choice permanent instead of bugging me later, before clicking ok
Never again HP, never again. It’s so sad to see a formerly great engineering company stooping this low as just another sleazy huckster
Can someone tell me why this is even necessary? Network printing has existed for almost as long as printers have and doesn’t require the cloud. There are standard protocols for discovering printers on the network and sending prints to them. I’m on Linux, have never installed printer drivers or even manually set up a printer, and I can print just fine over the network, it just knows which device is a printer and I can send prints to it with a single click. It even knows what the printer’s capabilities are, for example whether it can print double sided. Are people so afraid of the system print dialog that they insist on using HP’s app or something?
