WOW 🚨 If you have a printer at home you need to hear this This American has been using her HP Printer at home for 5 years. It’s always worked fine but it kept asking her to connect to WiFi. She’s never connected it, but after nonstop notifications being told she needed to connect it to WiFi or she will lose the ability to print, she finally connected it Now her printer wont print She’s been using cheaper ink in the printer for years, it’s about $40 cheaper per cartridge and works the same As soon as she connected to WiFi the printer updated to restrict the use of her printer with non-official HP INK cartridges She’s so upset she’s in tears and losing it I looked into this and they’re doing it to everyone The message is “The indicated cartridges have been identified as altered or cloned. HP printers require original HP…” That’s the exact error HP uses when Dynamic Security rejects a cartridge chip. Connecting to Wi-Fi is how the printer gets the firmware that tightens those checks. HP’s own docs say firmware updates over the internet “will maintain the effectiveness of the dynamic security measures” and can block cartridges that worked before The second she connected her printer to WiFi she made her printer unusable unless she pays double the price for the same ink