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LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences (x.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It. Is. Never. Enough.

You paid hundreds of dollars for a new monitor, but it doesn't matter. More ads, more profits.

I hate it.

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[–] 40 points 2 years ago (14 children)

I would call legal and IT. It's outside the scope of my role to accept contacts on behalf of the company.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago* (12 children)

    IT here, Plesse don't involve us... We don't want to to deal with this bs either

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    IT here, Yes, by all means involve me. I will buy a second monitor and plug it into a known box that is no business going anywhere. I will then block, at the network firewall level, any outbound traffic to anything that thing talks to. If it uses its own MAC address at the head end I will then collect and publish every connection that thing tries to make outside to a blacklist and provide it to the public.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Sounds way more interesting than most IT work as well. I'd definitely rather do some investigative work like this than a typical parade of password resets, email assistance, and software installations.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    I had to ask a helpdesk for a 2fa reset once. Intrestingly, they didn't make me identify myself except for first and last name. Not sure what point the 2FA has if it's that easy to remove.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Depending on the help desk they probably knew it was you. Did you call from a phone HR knows about? If it was a walk up, did they make the ticket before or after resetting your MFA?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    They do have the phone number on record, so I guess that's what they did. More likely though they didn't even check. They made no ticket either, just reset it in the course of an around 3 minute call.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Are you sure there is no ticket? Some systems let you make tickets that the end user is not notified for. Also, depending on the size/ levels of automation your call may have populated all your info on the agents end.

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