Printers have been network enabled for a very long time… I personally find that specific feature very useful on my home HP printer (for printing from my phone, etc) and it’s invaluable in many work environments. I’ll agree that some others “features” bug me… Being locked in to janky proprietary software, cartridges, privacy concerns stemming from having a HP account and more. I’d say those are more substantial issues
Having features to a thing you bought locked behind an account only serves to discourage people being used things since a good chunk of people will either don’t know how or are too lazy to remove their account from said thing.
Given that it’s a HP printer, I can almost guarantee you that it’s only linked up to an account so the previous user could use the printing subscription. There’s absolutely no security reason for doing this.
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What kind of security, for example? It’s a printer, it shouldn’t even be online.
Printers have been network enabled for a very long time… I personally find that specific feature very useful on my home HP printer (for printing from my phone, etc) and it’s invaluable in many work environments. I’ll agree that some others “features” bug me… Being locked in to janky proprietary software, cartridges, privacy concerns stemming from having a HP account and more. I’d say those are more substantial issues
Having features to a thing you bought locked behind an account only serves to discourage people being used things since a good chunk of people will either don’t know how or are too lazy to remove their account from said thing.
Given that it’s a HP printer, I can almost guarantee you that it’s only linked up to an account so the previous user could use the printing subscription. There’s absolutely no security reason for doing this.