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See my other comment on this. I did not register it with Brother, and have no account with Brother. Given this is Amazon, I cannot help but feel pessimistic tha
by Ajay-p 3y ago
See my other comment on this. I did not register it with Brother, and have no account with Brother. Given this is Amazon, I cannot help but feel pessimistic that this was done without consent.
- crazygringo 3y agoAh ha, it turns out there's a third option -- Alexa automatically finds printers on your network and checks their ink levels: https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=19820259011 https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=19820259011 So it doesn't seem to have anything to do specifically with Brother at all. Mystery solved. It's an Alexa feature ("feature"). So feel free to be angry at Amazon, but it's not Brother doing anything wrong. It's just reporting ink levels to anybody on your local network who asks, just like every other printer. You might want to change your headline since it accuses Brother rather than Amazon.
- RajT88 3y agoYou can turn this off in the Alexa app. I went looking for it after reading that page. It's under Settings > Device Discovery (near the bottom of the settings). It's on by default of course.
- hnburnsy 3y agoNext time you add a new device, it will 'find' the printer despite this setting.
- RajT88 3y agoIndeed I suspected so, but thought you'd be presented the option not to add it. But no - these fuckers, when you do device discovery, it re-adds everything it finds automatically instead of confirming what you want to add. Then you have to disable the device once discovered. What do you want to bet that disabled devices occasionally, mysteriously, get re-enabled?