You're not paying for ink cartridges silly, you're paying for how much you print!
It all makes sense: if you stop paying for the service, you stop receiving the service, duh!
It's not illegal so it's crazy that people think they're this evil corporation!
I worked at a Staples when I was young and would tell people it was probably more cost efficient to throw out their $25 printers when they ran out of ink and buy a new one.
Yeah my father was and old school programmer and suffered making printer drivers for Canon so I learned all about the grift. They love peddling this garbage to people who are just trying to buy printers for like their kids going to college and whatnot
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yeah my parents did this