I hate that everything now is a subscription service instead of buying it and do whatever you want.

  • iAmTheTot
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    431 year ago

    HP does an ink subscription thing. They will try to trick you into it, too, so I’m sure lots of people sign up without realizing just by trying to use their printer software. Anyway, that ink stops working if you stop paying.

    • Lexi Sneptaur
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      231 year ago

      Yeah I looked into it, some models require the HP+ subscription to work. That’s only on some of their loss leader models but still misleading, so that’s still shitty

    • @givesomefucks
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      151 year ago

      They come with a cartridge and “six months free ink” if you register.

      But if you register and then six months later realize you never use it and you cancel…

      They lock the cartridge

    • @agent_flounder
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      51 year ago

      Yeah no thanks on ink subscription. Also, my printer still works great… but HP forgot how to write software apparently so now I use a 3rd party android print app. Ugh. I’m kind of fed up with the HP experience lately.

    • @0235
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      31 year ago

      Yes. Co-worker got a super cheap printer, and then tried to cancel the ink subscription. turns out he couldn’t just buy ink from them, and his printer was useless.