Can confirm. I have an HP printer and the only way to get them to work is refusing the subscription and blocking it's internet access.
Don't buy an HP.
Pro tip. Pull out the colour ink cartridge when you print black and white, or it will use it to "enhance" the print i.e. waste it. Also works when it refuses to print BW because of "no cyan".
I bought a used HP printer in an unknown state of functionality. I figured that it would be worth the cost of aftermarket ink cartridges to see if it even worked. The printer knew that the ink cartridges weren't genuine HP ones, and refused to work. Checking HP's web site, that's because they don't want me unsatisfied with the pint quality due to potentially inferior aftermarket ink cartridges. They don't seem to mind that I'm extremely unsatisfied for a different reason.
Don't buy an HP.