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 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.

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

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.”

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...

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???

i really wonder if this affects non smart monitors

Crap.

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