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[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

As we saw in this story from a few months ago, yes, absolutely, manufacturers will stoop to the level of disabling devices which are prevented from exfiltrating your data. I'm pretty sure I've heard of TVs doing the same with the network modules but I'm too lazy to search for it now.