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TIL Printers add microscopic yellow tracking dots encoding date, time, and serial number for tracking owners

submitted by Conspirologist to whatever 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 02:39:40 ago (+32/-9)     (www.bbc.com)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots



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[ - ] HatefulHomelessMan 11 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 04:55:00 ago (+11/-0)

I always assumed that at-home pc-printer models added invisible ink code on everything they put ink on just incase someone was going to use it to create anti-jewish flyers. The corporate jew rats wouldn't want their printers to be used against them.

[ - ] Conspirologist [op] -5 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 06:50:19 ago (+2/-7)

Looks like you have to throw away your printer after printing something dangerous.

[ - ] Crackinjokes 6 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 09:18:01 ago (+6/-0)

It's tied to the serial number so it was bar scanned when you bought it and tied to you.

[ - ] germ22 2 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 11:26:59 ago (+2/-0)

then pay in cash.

[ - ] Nietzsche 1 point 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 13:28:14 ago (+1/-0)

A bar code doesn't disclose the serial number. If you are still worried, thrift stores are a good place to buy disposable items.

[ - ] ruck_feddit 0 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 15:35:34 ago (+0/-0)

What's the bar code have to do with the serial number?

[ - ] Conspirologist [op] -7 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 11:12:46 ago (+0/-7)

Ok. But you can still claim it was stolen, or you threw it away in the junk.

[ - ] JudyStroyer 5 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 11:51:42 ago (+5/-0)

Holy fuck. You are dumb as shit, aren’t ya? You are exactly the guy that would buy a gun, commit a crime, ditch the gun, then go “nu-uh” when the cops show up after they find your gun.

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens 10 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 06:30:13 ago (+10/-0)

Considering your screen name, I'm very surprised you didn't know this well-known fact.

[ - ] Ragnar 6 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 09:59:20 ago (+6/-0)

He’s a poojeet

[ - ] UncleDoug 2 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 15:41:25 ago (+2/-0)

The yellow dot on the page is cancelled out by the red dot on his forehead.

[ - ] Ragnar 2 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 21:14:03 ago (+2/-0)

I laughed fr. Thanks, uncle D

[ - ] JudyStroyer 3 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 11:42:01 ago (+3/-0)

Exactly!

[ - ] Conspirologist [op] -3 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 06:48:57 ago (+4/-7)

I don't use printers. So I have never researched about printers before.

[ - ] Lophan 5 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 08:21:42 ago (+5/-0)

That doesn't correlate, are you a politician?

[ - ] Ragnar 5 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 10:00:34 ago (+5/-0)

More like a poo

[ - ] Conspirologist [op] -8 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 08:41:40 ago (+0/-8)

I mainly research about mind control hypnosis and clones.

[ - ] JudyStroyer 7 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 11:46:49 ago (+7/-0)

You should research how they clone documents to hypnotize and control the minds of people using the iconic paper cloning machine the printer

Fuckin retard jeet faggot. Do you shit in the street because you have never “researched toilets”?

[ - ] WNwoman 6 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 09:50:43 ago (+6/-0)

This is to locate and punish anyone that prints the It’s Ok To Be White signs.

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 5 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 09:03:47 ago (+5/-0)

EFF has been tracking this for years. The thing is no one knows how far back it goes to. Supposedly tracking dots started on copier machines in the 90s before moving to laser printers since both use the same printer system.

https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots

[ - ] hylo 4 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 11:26:41 ago (+4/-0)

Went into a rabbit hole on this and yeah pretty much every printer is expected to include some tracking info. They switched from yellow dots to other techniques because the public was onto them.

[ - ] Wolfspider 3 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 11:07:40 ago (+3/-0)

Plenty of printers end up in thrift stores where you can pay in cash.

[ - ] Conspirologist [op] -5 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 11:08:50 ago (+0/-5)

They are still connected to your computer, dude.

[ - ] Ragnar 3 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 09:58:25 ago (+4/-1)

Of course a pajeet like you wouldn’t have known this

[ - ] Conspirologist [op] -7 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 10:04:03 ago (+1/-8)

BigFag, why don't you just jerk off on tranny porn like other autistic fucktards, instead of shitpost spamming 24/7 with all your alt accounts here? Are you too stupid to understand that we all know it's you, autistic fucktard?

[ - ] Ragnar 5 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 10:30:10 ago (+5/-0)

Pajeet screeches, don’t understand.
Big display of your very smol iq here.

Go back to shitting on the street

[ - ] DitchPig -3 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 10:59:11 ago (+2/-5)

Cool story, "ragnar".

[ - ] bobdole9 3 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 08:12:07 ago (+4/-1)

No yellow dots if you only have a black toner laser printer!

taps temple

[ - ] Conspirologist [op] -8 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 08:39:57 ago (+0/-8)

I don't think is so simple. I bet laser printers have tracking dots too.

[ - ] JudyStroyer 6 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 11:55:50 ago (+6/-0)

I don’t think

Should’ve just stopped there.

[ - ] ruck_feddit 2 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 15:35:02 ago (+2/-0)

Of course you just learned this decades late you faggot retard.

[ - ] ModernGuilt 2 points 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 09:38:59 ago (+2/-0)

There's probably stenagraphy in everything you print; beyond serial number. Like ip, username, nearby wifi ap's. Jews don't want you doing anything funny

[ - ] oyveyo 1 point 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 15:41:25 ago (+1/-0)

You just learned this? Wait till you find out scanners have firmware that detects if you are scanning money.

[ - ] ruck_feddit 1 point 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 15:37:08 ago (+1/-0)

Wait until you find out what toilets are for. Neck yourself.

[ - ] duke_cannon 1 point 5 monthsDec 26, 2024 10:57:24 ago (+1/-0)

Get an old daisy wheel printer