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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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[-] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 18 points 7 hours ago

uBlock Origin anyone for the shitty ads? How do you folks even use internet without adblockers?! I don't give a shit if it "pays" for the websites, it's shit.

As for LG, I put it on my shit list. Their panels might be good, but I will never buy TV or monitor branded by them after seeing this shit. Then again my MSI motherboard has its dumbass Armory whatever driver nonsense that I need to disable in BIOS every time I reset CMOS which is pissing me off too.

Issue here is actually combination of shitty behavior from both, LG and Microsoft. LG doesn't technically inject anything, they just send a hardware flag to Windows which then just gladly pulls shit from internet and runs it. Not only it's annoying as fuck, this is malicious behavior and on top of that huge security risk. If anyone hijacks this shit from LG and Windows will just gladly parse and execute WHATEVER binary on millions of LG monitors. WHAT. THE. FUCK. You don't have to compromise each individual system, you just need to compromise single target which is LG. I don't think I need to further explain how that is insanely bad idea and Microsoft should disable this bullshit in Windows ASAP. I hope there will be more outrage about this...

[-] Rothe@piefed.social 26 points 7 hours ago

The ads are inherent in the software which Windows 11 automatically downloads as soon as you plug in the LG monitor. It doesn't ask, and you will get the ads even with an adblocker because they are not shown in a browser, but in Windows itself.

The best solution is not to use LG or Windows.

[-] waz@feddit.uk 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

This annoys me intensely. I don’t own a tv or monitor from LG, but I do have an excellent (dumb) washing machine and fridge, I would have updated my TV which is currently a fairly basic Samsung TV, because of it’s ads and I’ve decided they are on my shit list for this kind of thing.

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