+1 to this. If your negative reviews are getting removed and ratings are being manipulated, the only ethical way to deal with this company is to pay for Amazon Prime, buy from them when you need something, but refuse to leave positive reviews. I know it's hard and takes a lot of willpower but if everyone did this they'd be bankrupt in a week. Spread the word.

Weird. I stopped writing reviews because they blocked a negative one once. It wasn’t profane, it was just an honest review of a product I didn’t like. The seller paid to have it removed and they told me.

I wrote my first review in years for a product that died on me. I gave it five stars unironically: it lasted 2 and a half years and cost $20. I had no complaints. I just bought another one. But I’m not going back to reviewing everything. They broke that trust.

I agree with the other person who says the only ethical use is not to use it, but my wife insists on carrying a Prime sub, so I’ll use it when I need something.

The most ethical way to deal with Amazon is to not use it.

Businesses with more than say 500 employees should be required to repay the government for Medicaid expenses if any of their employees qualify.

At that size, the business can both pay a high enough wage and provide enough hours, that none of their employees should qualify.

We need to stop subsidizing big business, they can pay for their shit.

I used to short circuit HP ink canisters, back when that was doable anyways. Like fuck, even if the color inks are empty, so what if I wanna print in black/white/grey?

That was before HP enshittified their printers..

I've had the same Brother printer since 2009, my ex left it with me in 2015 and I still have it.

I still haven't changed the toner cartridge, it stays unplugged and unhooked except 2-3 times a year when I need a shipping label printed.

I watched a video yesterday about these $195 printers or you rent for $9 a month for two years that end up costing 50 bucks more at the end of the rental period and you still don't own the printer after that. If you print more than 20 pages a month then you get charged more.

Seconded! At least, about the brand loyalty, can't speak to the claim of them being stagnant.

I'm 51. I'm on my 3rd laser printer, ever. I shudder to think about how many inkjets I would've gone through, judging by the struggles I have seen in other households of just my own family.

First one was a giant thing from Oki whose main beauty was that it did proper PostScript and had both ethernet (10-base T) and AppleTalk, which we needed. The other ones were from Brother, first a black and white model and now a colour thing with duplex and a scanner. Not great for photos but everything else it just owns.

Lemmy’s just too, and forgive me for being blunt, neurodiverse and developmentally stunted to be able to understand the premise of the faux double-down. It’s never not going to burn

User name doesn't check out?

Sometimes you just got to light a match and watch the world burn.

Foxit pdf editor is pretty good! Hate Adobe....

Thanks to techies here and on the other site I won't name, after 30 years I moved to dry ink. My laser Brother I bought used for 80$ with 3 full cartridges and an open one, will last me until I die. I can print 3500 pages! Laser is beyond superior vs inkjet. It's not even comparable.

It's an Adobe product. Looking at it already requires a subscription.

Don’t worry, I understood that you were joking.

They disable the cartridge, not the printer itself iirc. If all you have is the subscription cartridges, then it basically bricks your printer since none of them will print without a valid subscription regardless if they have ink or not.

Brother.

Its printers used to be kinda so-so, but HP and the other brands decided to become so shitty - Brother became number 1 by remaining stagnant.

I was radicalized when I found out you needed a subscription in order to rotate a pdf in Adobe.

Seems fishy to me, even for shitass HP

Thanks for the reminder. I just added the firewall rule. Much appreciated!

I fucking love Wendigoon

This can't be true, right?

HP Printer stories. You think, "Ah, I haven't seen one in a long time. I guess everyone finally understands what a huge fucking nightmare they're designed to be."

*click*

Oh. Well. Hahahahaha. Welcome to the party, pal.

Don't know what everyone is bitching about. They have an option to enter a bank routing and account number option so this won't happen.

Time to block outbound internet access on all Brother printers then, I guess…

Nothing like a good P-Touch story

…so anyone, then.

Would the world even notice if HP just poofed out of existence one day at this point? Absolute leeches.