[defrost]

> I lived in one of those countries, and I can tell you that it's not at all nice that they tracked what you photocopied,

That's all photocopiers & printers though, with US manufacturers being ground zero for tracking, IIRC - https://www.instructables.com/Yellow-Dots-of-Mystery-Is-Your...

[account42]

Black & white printers cannot implement the yellow dots at least and even with color printers it is not literally every one of them.

Adding tracking information, while it shouldn't be happening, is also many steps away from e.g. the printer analyzing everything you print and reporting to the government if it is something unapproved.

[jiggawatts]

Which is one reason I stopped using printers entirely.