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Brother Printer... adware?!
(lemmy.world)
When I boot up my comp (windows 10, Home Edition), I'm getting pop-ups for my Brother printer. Ive had the printer for 2 or 3 years, and have used their "Brother iPrint&Scan" to run it since day one, but the pop-ups have only been happening for a few weeks.
They always have this text:
...and I always click "Don't show this again", but then I boot my computer up and it's back.
Any way to kill it for good, without also killing the printer?
One feature introduced with Windows Vista was a standardised set of APIs that enabled Printer Drivers and Scanner Drivers without needing separate insecure executables. (Windows XP SP1 and earlier versions had huge vulnerabilities in the print stack and TWAIN interface).
The problem with these APIs was that Printer and Scanner manufacturers were no longer able to spam users with their logo 5000 times per scan or print. None of them wanted to adopt them because their users may forget who made their printer.