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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago

I mean, I kinda understand where they are coming from. I don’t agree with their implementation though.

Why add this? Public/unsecured/shared wifi. The moment someone is on the same network, they had full access to the printer. Yeah, technically the fault of the end user, but I can understand them not wanting the potential hate for it.

But in reality, all they needed to do was add a proper local API with full access behind a login/token system. It would suck in the short term as all previous tools would break, but it would solve both problems.