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Genuine question. Would you all be fine if instead they required that printers add some sort of invisible tracking data? Similar to how 2d printers do.
I know that would be difficult to do with this tech but if it were possible.
I'd be ok if they didn't track anything.
No
I print toys for my kids, small pieces to fix things and not much else. While I've got nothing to hide, but still find this unnecessarily invasive.
The problem with this is that you need to alter the model printed. One thing is to print some yellow dots on a paper, another thing is to print some 3d marker in a model that you know nothing about with the risk to print a defective piece.
And anyway it should be done at the slicer level, the printer still only know that it need to rotate that motor for x steps, nothing else, it has no way to know what the next instruction would be.
That's what I mean by "if it were possible"