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This means you can be locked out of registering your printer. Why are all printer companies the stupidest companies ever?
why would you register a brother printer?
We have an older Brother printer, and they now insist, even though there's a USB port, that you register with them to print over wifi. There is no driver for USB that I could find. There is an app that will let you print over USB, but it's buggy and very limited in function.
This is why i havent bought my own printer. That shit is a scam industry. 15 years ago printers already had plenty of issues and now it's only gotten worse with this type of shenanigans
Brothers is one of the few good brands left...
The only reason to register is a warranty, but I've never heard of anyone needing to use one for one of these.
OP is complaining that it's slightly difficult to do something with no benefits no one is making them do...
Printers are like a magnet for shitty exploitative consumer practices. This is, no doubt, probably intended to make the it difficult or impossible to resell the printer.
They’ve probably got someone high up in the company that’s convinced themselves that every sale on the secondary market is money coming out of their pockets. Complete bullshit if you think about it for more than a few moments, but that’s the kind of innovative adversarial stupidity that business brained types are best at.