This is 100% also Microsoft fault and they are to be held accountable for this. With many drivers it can happen that one manufacturer goes rogue, but Microsoft needs to have a zero tolerance policy for this: do it once and your signature is permanently revoked for all your drivers
LG is on my permanent vendor shitlist for related reasons.
As much as I’d like a bigger TV with OLED, I’ll be sticking with my old Toshiba dumb TV. It’s good enough and doesn’t even know the internet exists.
How can a monitor install stuff on a PC? Can you do that over hdmi/dp? Does it require usb?
Either way, this stuff should be illegal or at least require a much more explicit warning than hiding it in terms of service that nobody reads. And of course everybody would do well to avoid LG out of principle from now on.
Saw the video by Gamers Nexus and basically Windows auto installs an LG Driver utility that has ads.
Razer mice have some crapware that auto-installs on Windows now, through windows update. Their official driver that it downloads adds the crap and Microsoft just lets it do it all.
No such hassles on Linux though.
Windows update, by default, is set to automatically download and install the malware for them when the HDMI cable is connected to the computer, within less than a minute.
It’s pretty much impossible to buy a dumb TV nowadays. It’s much easier to disconnect a smart TV from the internet using a firewall.
Or don’t add it to your network
Jellyfin app works really well on LG TVs. I think it’s the app that gives me the least issues of all the ones I’ve used. I find it much easier to use than pluging in a laptop. In other scenario external computer may be the best option.
Not impossible, several options are still out there if you actually search for “non smart TV” on retailers’ websites.
Sceptre was one brand that made decent non-smart TVs but they seem to be vanishing off the market now. Many used ones still on ebay and other secondhand markets. Their website still shows a bunch of TV models but the retail links turn up empty.
I searched and didn’t find anything in Europe. And that was couple of years ago already. Maybe there are some sources I don’t know about but I didn’t find any in typical stores.
Never buy a “smart” appliance that you want a dumb version of.
The problem is that this is about normal LG screens, nothing smart about them.
Simply put, Microsoft detects you’re using an LG screen, it downloads the appropriate drivers released by LG, and those drivers are in fact just nagware.
That’s too bad because the monitors themselves are pretty good.
Time to add LG to the list of computer display OEMs I will avoid like the plague on principle.
been a sceptre user for years
i understand how smart TV can be a problem. But monitors too?
They’ll install the spyware via your hdmi / display port or what?
This was already answered multiple times in the comments when you posted this. And also in the article. Are you running in write-only mode?
Nope! Another thing to avoid buying
can’t wait to install one in the toilet and have them listening me fart all over the place
cannot be that hard to disable the windows store
Laughs in Microsoft
Laughs in linux
Transcends in TempleOS
Laughs in Be OS
It certainly is not. As administrator:
Get-AppxPackage -allusers *WindowsStore* | Remove-AppxPackage
This is because as soon as a monitor is connected to a Windows computer, it automatically installs both the LG Monitor App Installer and McAfee Scam Detector without ever asking the user for permission.
Is this not a felony under U.S. law? Computer hacking has HUGE criminal liability.
No, no no. That’s only if you do it. If a huge corporation does it, see, that’s different. Corporations are “people” for the purposes of free speech (with money) or even voting (example), but when it comes time to throw somebody in jail for overtly criminal behavior, all of the sudden the legal system can’t find anyone to target.
Name something you do as a corporation to avoid any laws or accountability with the current administration
BRIBE THE DOJ
let’s see if that answer’s on the board…survey says…!
DING
It’s actually windows doing it
Another win for Linux
The more I learn about windows the more I wish I would’ve ditched it a long time ago instead of last month…
It probably says somewhere in the ToS, which is still a fucking disgrace that those exists, without having to make clear and obvious bullet points you click “consent”.
Even having to make consent multiple times should be mandatory for every shit they try to do.
Solution if users shouldnt hit consent multiple times? Dont do shady shit.
Just a reminder that terms of service or any other contract never override law
I can’t remember the specifics right now, but in Gamers Nexus video from yesterday, according to LG ToS you must disclose something regarding spying and wiretapping laws to your family and anyone visiting your house
Literally insane that you can even put that in an agreement to being with.
I have a plan: we pass a law that any contract intended for the public (ToS, various other terms and conditions, privacy policies, etc) must be at the average reading level of the American public. We’ll either incentivize better education or better contracts. Maybe both!
Doesnt matter if it’s in kindergarten level reading, as long as it’s a few paragraphs long, people will accept it.
Or standardize agreements that can be agreed to with just clicks so you can tell what’s up from just seeing which agreement modules are included and what parameters they have (along with a bunch of sites that explain them in easier terms for the less literate, which will be useful because they are standards used by many agreements rather than needing a unique one for each version of each document).
Apparently it’s windows doing it. Not the monitor via the HDMI or something. I guess that’s what you get for using windows.
Yep. Windows installs manufacturer “helper” apps automatically like drivers. Got a Logitech mouse? You probably have a Logitech app in there you never asked for too because you plugged it in.
Stop using windows.
I don’t use windows
I think that was more of a PSA for other people reading along.
Stop using Windows.
lol jk. I’m glad that we here all ditched Windows. amirite or amirite?..
Than this won’t affect you
I had to go and find the Logitech app and install it myself. Otherwise it just used the minimal drivers that were built into windows.
Maybe wired mice and those without rainbow barf behave differently.
I’ve got a corsair rainbow barfer and I also had to install its control program manually. Mileage probably varies by manufacturer, most likely.
Soon-to-be-illegal-tooltip: openRGB is a thing.
OOOH! Can we manually add entries for unwanted software to windows defender?
Also, implied consent is not consent, and if there is no consent, the entire contract is unenforceable and therefore void.
Let me guess, proprietary drivers cause this and the open source or generic drivers lack “functionality”.
If it turns on, reaches its peek resolution and refresh rate that is good enough for me, I genuinely can care less for HDR or the nitty gritty features.
Monitors don’t need drivers. Your GPU needs drivers, and you might need color correction for your monitor.
Microslop decided that any device that is plugged in might need drivers. They allow device manufacturers to specify an arbitrary program to be downloaded and executed by Windows Update, any time a device they make is plugged in.
And if that driver/software does evil or is so poorly written it meets driver verification but exposes vulnerabilities, how is that Microsoft’s fault
Microsoft is the company that approved the software to automatically download and run as admin when a specific device is plugged in. The OEM submitted malware and Microsoft approved it. Both are at fault for letting malware download and run on your device.
In the case of vulnerabilities, MS is fully aware of this happening frequently and has announced they want to do something about it, but hasn’t actually done anything about it.
Old monitors need it for absolutely nothing, like my 2020 LG. Every feature works out of the box, because it has to over display cables.
I think at most it adds an ICC profile, but it’s not matched to the panel anyway and you can just install that seperately.
Ironic
Bought a LG TV and a Monitor three years ago. Last time I will do that. Really happy about my decision not to let the TV have access to the internet.
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Good luck finding a brand NOT doing it by the time you’re ready for a new one.
A lot of bad ones out there, but some are worse than others. For example, I’m not going to consider a Samsung TV because of how many times they’ve done something sketchy
LG is also falling down the list with this incident
Yeah fist time I saw an ad on my smart monitor I reset it and never connected it to my wifi again
What’s the point of a smart monitor? It’s connected to a PC. The PC is smart.
I’d love to know who wants all that extra crap
About 90% of Society. If you told my mom she was going to have to plug in a device and use another button on her remote (input) she’d look at you like you were asking her to replace a CPU on a computer. Can I do that? Yeah, I can but it’s delicate work fraught with danger.
Yep, mine has never reached the internet, it is connected but is blocked at the firewall so I can still hook home assistant up to it.
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I was responding to his TV mention.
