Connecting your tv to the internet is a terrible idea and has been for years. If you have webos and must connect it for some reason root it, block all updates (they rarely include bug fixes, just make the UI more sluggish with increased advertising), and block all lg ad domains in your router.

||snu.lge.com^ ||su.lge.com^ ||su-ssl.lge.com^ ||snu-dev.lge.com^ ||su-dev.lge.com^ ||nsu.lge.com^

Are the domains to block, formatted for adguard.

“Please allow ads on this site. Click OK to learn more.”

When I was shopping for a new monitor a while back I stayed away from "Smart" monitors with their own operation system. I'm connecting it to a computer, why would I spend an extra $600 when the exact same monitor without an operating system exists?

Remember just a few years ago, all the main tech companies and Government were gaslighting the shit out of everyone about the targeted advertising stuff? It's not listening to you! The ADs based on what you're talking about are just coincidental!

Maybe no one remembers this for some reason. Of course they just get away with all the lying

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...

Tries to read

"please allow ads on our site!"

Please fuck the hell right off.

"Whoever came up with this......"

Executive with shit eating grin in the corner of the room

"And I'll fuckin' do it again"

I have an "ancient" 720p dumb TV and I refuse to get rid of it because of shit like this. My disabled eyes can't tell the difference between that and 4k anyways

Surely there is some legal recourse? It's vandalism. They are putting things on YOUR property. Secondly, shouldn't they be paying YOU to lease your advertising space???

Fighting the good fight with Pi-hole and I understand most people cant set it up or afford the hardware but its worth it.

Dumb TV hooked to the HDMI out on my computer. Jellyfin.

Fuck the billionaires.

I have a LG oled tv and keep it off the internet because I keep hearing about crap like this

I connect it occasionally because it has been pretty unstable and I hope that updates will resolve issues, but seems they are more concerned about updating ads etc than improving the system software

Is it possible to physically disable the mic on the TVs without adversely affecting other functions? I see no reason a mic to be necessary on a TV at all.

Remember, LG stands for "Literal Garbage".

Been thinking about a monitor upgrade... I should get on that if they're going the way of TVs. Any recommendations that don't have all this shit?

I've been using the same monitors for... holy shit, like almost two decades. One was a Goodwill trash purchase to use as a secondary, the other was a highschool graduation gift. Highschool. I barely even remember highschool at this point. Anyway, they're showing their age. And I'm way out of touch with what specs to shoot for, or what they even mean. I need a 'For Idiots' guide to this shit.

Is it 1984 yet

Crap.

So which brand should be my next TV with a comparable display panel?