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'Whoever came up with this is a massive idiot': LG's gaming monitors and TVs are facing a user revolt (www.techradar.com)
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...due to seemingly installing adware on PCs and telling you to warn guests they may be recorded by AI features, to comply with 'wiretapping' laws

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[–] 49 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Yeah but this is going a step further. This is also happening for PC monitors which are a bit harder to keep away from internet seeing as they connect to your internet-connected computer. Router blocking will help there too of course but the average user will not be able to set this up.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    The monitor thing is crazy because I have no idea why you would install software for your computer monitor?? Like the monitor itself isn’t connected to the internet and the adware comes from installing some lg monitor tools suite, and I have no clue why you would do that? Like are people really dead set on changing their monitor input via pc instead of the monitor osd??

    Monitor should and does just work. Lg just scams people into installing unnecessary software because it’s harder to shove ads into a computer monitor

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  • [–] 52 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Windows does that automatically. The software is part of the LG monitor driver and is distributed through Microsoft's automatic driver setup infrastructure.

    There's an obscure GPO that can prevent Windows from auto-installing "related files" but of course most people don't know it exists or that it's yet another core OS feature you have to turn off to use Windows in peace.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Windows

    i found the problem /hj

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  • [–] 20 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    /hj

    Handjob? Never seen that tag before...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    That’s the part I’m confused by. Why does a non touchscreen monitor even need a driver? It should work fine before windows is even in the picture?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Might be glorified ICC profiles. Normally EDID should cover most bases already but I can see how config files might improve matters.

    Of course there is no justification for adding a dropper for unwanted programs.

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