They use the small flash inside the DRM chip in the cartridge to store the telemetry, then the e-waste companies are paid by HP to read and send to the mothership the contents of the chips sent to recycle

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    Cheap upper management who will see the low price on a printer and will not listen to any of your arguments, explanations, emails, documents, begging, pleading…
    Guess who had to support 4 HP Ink Tank pieces of shit at his last job?
    I had to reinstall the drivers for those heaps of e-waste almost daily, nothing else could fix them 🙃