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~~Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals~~ [see comments] (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Brother deny the claims:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/

via https://startrek.website/comment/15279250

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[–] lefixxx@lemmy.world 62 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Brother losing all competitive advantage they had via reputation. Doing a very big 180 and reversing the changes and commiting to no do t his BS is the only way to undo this

[–] commander 22 points 3 weeks ago

They must've hired some new analysts that said "hey, people are willing to accept less! Why are we doing more?"

It's up to the people to prove them wrong, but that usually doesn't happen :\