Quoting Hendrik Boom ([email protected]):

> But why, why, is a browser listening on a socket that's used for printer 
> discovery?  Is the browser acting as a printer proxy for everyone on the LAN? 
>  
This particular dumbness appears to all about ability to broadcast your
desktop over Google Cast (sometimes called ChromeCast), which uses
Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) and mDNS.  See, you only
_thought_ you wanted to decide what network services are chatting
mindlessly to the world by default.  Google, Inc. knows better than you.

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

But you can indeed turn that sucker off, you ingrate.  ;->
https://www.vastorigins.com/2019/01/disable-mdns-and-ssdp-discovery-in.html

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