I think lots of non-EU and non-technical bloggers would likely see the email I had (which was just opportunistic marketing spam from a European company and not nefarious) and think they were in breach of something like you say they are probably not.

The other competition doesn't quite have the UX and quality of Bambu Lab. That's changing slowly, but it's reality today IMO.

The challenge is that the 3d Printing community is maturing from a hobbyist/tinker phase into a consumer phase with Bambu Lab leading the way. Bambu Lab has mostly threaded the needle by balancing proprietary UX with practical ability to tinker, swap parts, etc.

But as with most hobby communities, if someone doesn't understand a motivation of a change, they immediately ascribe it to a conspiracy.

Bambu Lab wanting to improve printer security is an obvious thing to anyone who has dealt with corporate network security in the past... today it is effectively an insecure toy that would only be deployed on black holed lab networks. They're trying to make it more modern via Mutual TLS authenticated file transfer rather than a cobbled together mix of FTP and MQTT.

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In addition to that, if possible, your highlighter could show all domains with highlights.

Another useful addition would be sharing a page with someone with your highlights. Even here, on HN, someone could read an article and share a link with highlights added. The highlights themselves could go to the URL #hash part. This could be used together with the Archive.is snapshots.

Edit: A simpler feature would be saving a summary of all highlights in a basic text form that can be easily shared here or anywhere else, really. It's very handy when you're reading a long page, keep highliting interesting parts and at the end get the summary.