• @Docus
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    712 hours ago

    So the yellow dots became public knowledge 20 years ago, and other than a one liner that other tracking methods may exist, nothing about these other methods seems to be published. Surely the three letter agencies haven’t given up on tracking.

  • AnonymousCoward
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    3919 hours ago

    One of the many reasons why I lost all faith in a person when I realize they’re a conspiracy theorist.

    The goddamn government tracking plans are on fucking wikipedia and they’re worried about chips injected in a vaccine from some twitter shitpost.

    • @SupraMario
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      29 hours ago

      The conspiracy people who post on Facebook are the ones that make me laugh, they’ll post about shit like 5g and Bill Gates microchips…on Facebook…while posting what they ate that day…no one needs to track you secretly when you post literally your every minute of your life.

    • @[email protected]
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      413 hours ago

      Yeah, this was an actual secret conspiracy for over 20 years, though. This is an example of a real collusion between global governments and corporations to track members of the public.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      916 hours ago

      We didn’t know about these until 2004, which wasn’t that long ago for some of us.

  • The Pantser
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    1618 hours ago

    So they are purposely using extra ink for this and slowing down my prints? Bastards.

    • @mkwt
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      2018 hours ago

      Also why you need yellow ink to print a b&w document. Just in case you were actually trying to print out dollar bills.

      • LostXOR
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        916 hours ago

        Hands cashier a black & white $100 bill. What do you mean it’s fake??? It’s just vintage!

    • @[email protected]
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      1015 hours ago

      I thought they were unique per printer not just type. More akin to a serial number instead of a model number.

      • kersplooshOP
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        414 hours ago

        That is my understanding. And I assume the dot patterns are made by printers worldwide. The article mentions Dutch law enforcement using them, and German researchers studying them.