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Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally gen... by kvuj on Monday August 24, 2026 @01:47PM (#49423402)
You have no idea how deep this rabbit hole goes. Search for EFF printers secret tracking.

Virtually all commercial printers embed an invisible identifier on every page printed.

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Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally gen... by imhoguy on Monday August 24, 2026 @03:24PM (#49424666)
Now I need to see if agentic reverse engineering of printer firmware can actually remove that "feature" for good.
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Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally gen... by esafak on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:01PM (#49423607)
It was about money anti-counterfeiting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

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Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally gen... by SV_BubbleTime on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:23PM (#49423907)
There is always a legit reason. It’s just never the only reason.
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Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally gen... by inigyou on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @07:06AM (#49431858)
Are they still doing the EURion constellation, too? You can embed that in anything.
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Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally gen... by kube-system on Monday August 24, 2026 @04:57PM (#49425756)
Virtually all color laser printers and copiers.
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