So you know that expensive HP printer/scanner you bought? Despite paying for it, you might not really own it depending on the model. If your HP printer currently works with non-HP cartridges you might want to block the HP url on your router to prevent a firmware update.
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As I pointed out on Matrix. Not for the first time.
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Itās amazing that they would pull the same shenanigans they previously did not win.
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Shareholders expect continuous growth or they will pull their funds elsewhere. Kinda hard to simply double-down on quality and innovation when the lucrative subscription model taints everything it touches.
It could be worseā¦ Imagine your surprise to find out that instead of walled-gardens of ink subscriptions your printer opted to print out a full color ad every 10 pagesā¦ unless you subscribed for the āPremium printingā experience. Yeah, it could be worse. 
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Hopefully, this will be settled once and for all in the court room, that is if enough money changes hands. It seems that is all that matters these days.
Iād absolutely love to calculate the bandwidth consumed from unauthorized traffic flowing through my home network from apps phoning home so that I could start sending them their due share of my ISP bill every month.
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I was hopeful for HP and am glad they discuss electronic waste, but who would ever dream of this? HP should never have the right to disable a device which is not in their development. Once a device leaves HP, I should be able to use food coloring if I want, or even paint or hemp oil. Itās the customers printer, and Iām sure if HP wants to remain a respectable company, theyāll change this in a year. If not, then no more HP. Theyāll ruin their own business, but clearly do not care at all.
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Wireshark can do it, but itās not at all easy, nor understandable to learn. It really is as if the wireshark developers intentionally spend time making the program as complicated as humanly poasible, instead of easier.
As if they want to keep wireshark too ātechnicalā for the average computer user to use and learn. I guess what is required is a soft-fork of the progtam with a completely different interface, and bring together bandwidth measurement tools that actually make sense, and are easy and accessible to new users.
Until then, wireshark is basically garbage, and only good for the developers of the tool, because they are the only people that will EVER understand how to use many of the functions.
I can use it for listing packets, and filtering the list for just dns or https, thatās it. Everything else is so intentionally complicated it may as well not even be a part of the program, unless you spend months learning how to use a single function.
Why can I not just click a tool and ask it to measure how much bandwidth is used total? Why is that so complicated to do?
If you donāt already, install pi-hole onto your system, even inside a vm. This way you can block all websites you donāt want connecting.
NoScript is another good tool, but all domains and IP addresses for all pf those domains will still be resolved, so the way to stop that is blocking those domains before a website requests them, with pi-hole or similar.