The Official Sticker Removal Thread

you have to be psychotic to put a sticker there. Like it’s actually physically difficult to do, and the results can screw up your customers hardware / purchase? what the heck

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It is truly evil, and worst is that they’re generally really hard to remove without damaging the disc. I don’t know exactly why they would do this, other than a cynical way to make the possible resell value worse for the buyer (and harder selling to competitors)… which would be next level destructive.

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I’ve been able to remove them with either goo-gone or IPA with no problems.

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True story: 20 years ago I was replacing a failed thermal solution (integrated CPU heat sink+fan assembly) for my brother. I pulled off the old one and needed to clean off the lid on top of the CPU. I shouted around the corner and asked “Hey, can you bring me some IPA?” He literally came back with a beer. So I started drinking that and then asked him for some isopropyl alcohol so I could finish the project.

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