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more often than not, it's in the name of security
Think of the kids... security.
But whose security?
Profits security.
Surely this actually cuts into their profits in the longer term? More and more people will simply refuse to buy HP hardware. If they don't, they deserve to get grifted to high heavens and back at this point.
If they actually bothered to care about the long term, a lot of these companies simply only care about near term and maybe maybe medium term profits
the poor defenseless users, of course 🙏
Is "users" a new way of saying shareholders?