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Whilst it's preaching to the choir, I would attribute 50% of the blame to Microsoft. Loading any old thing and running it is not very responsible.
Microsoft doesn't police IHVs -> Geeks: " MS is negligent! " Microsoft does police IHVs -> Geeks: " MS is an evil monopolist! "
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There's also the option of "MS asks you if you want to run stuff your monitor wants to run". It's not that hard. The fault here is definitely LG's, though.
[x] Yes [ ] Remind me later
Where more options plus a couple more clicks eventually leads you to the remind me later equivalent.
Whilst it's preaching to the choir, I would attribute 50% of the blame to Microsoft. Loading any old thing and running it is not very responsible.
It’s as if nothing was learned from AutoRun CDs and the like.
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No, this is LG making a choice to abuse an OS feature in order to shove ads down people's throats and spy on them. What a dirty, scummy move. Never buying an LG product again. (Also a Linux user, so this doesn't affect me, but this is gross.) I have an LG TV that I've never allowed to connect to a network, and I'm definitely keeping it that way.
>I have an LG TV that I've never allowed to connect to a network, and I'm definitely keeping it that way. I'm starting to think that is what I need to do with my computers.
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> I decided I would never buy an LG monitor after mine broke ... Sheesh it's bad luck. I've got an ultra-wide 38" LG monitor since 2017. Nearly 10 years and that thing is used daily and still running strong.
10 years is a long time to enshittify.
I never liked LG, but I had to buy from them. They're the only ones that make (made) monitors in this format. 2560x2880 (16:18) LG 28MQ780 https://image.coolblue.nl/624x351/content/8841411d2a3b31f142...
Is there any hdmi dongle that can be used to mitigate this?
There's this: https://goldilocklabs.com/products/silentglass And this: https://git.cuvoodoo.info/kingkevin/board/src/branch/hdmi_fi... But I'm not sure they would block it, and the latter is not plug-and-play. I expect it wouldn't be especially hard to make one though.
Choosing wisely doesn't prevent any given manufacturer from adding crap like this in the future. They might not push out adware today, but nothing seems to stop them from doing so in the future. That's what makes the LG controversy uncomfortable to me: the McAfee ads were pushed out years after some owners purchased their monitors.
Why analog monitors is better. Harder to install spyware. So called by the industry "Smart devices" are dumb for privacy reasons.
> In what timeline is this acceptable behaviour by a fucking monitor to tell it’s manufacturer what [naughty] video you’re currently watching? But LG already did that 10 years ago. If you didn't care then, why do you care now? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6778397