HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing

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HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing
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HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …

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DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! Removing this sticker will reveal a consumer-friendly communications port that will deprive HP of even more money than it's already milking you for with overpriced ink!

I’m kind of surprised they just didn’t remove the usb port entirely

Design revisions are expensive

Yeah but they could save 50 cents a printer, how can they just pass up those savings?