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This needs to go viral and be posted in reviews for every monitor with this "feature". Heck, make a convenient warning icon indicating "adware" for such reviews so I can scroll past them faster.
No way I'm risking buying a TV or monitor from LG after seeing this. It would go right back in the box to be returned.
Once it's established as a way to make money, everyone will add it.
Don't be surprised to see it added to the GPUs at the output level, just in case you think any screen manufacturers will hold out.
Why on earth have you let your monitor access the internet
It's hooked to a Mac, so most likely on Thunderbolt which would allow it internet access with the video feed. So it's possible they didn't have a choice. (This isn't limited to Mac though)
That's fucked up...
So now we just need a MAC filter with a wild card at the firewall?
No more LG products in this house.
This just makes me think of every thread complaining about smart tvs and every comment saying "just buy a monitor!"
Indeed...
That's tragic, LG monitors used to be great.
Honestly Korean brands are just not options anymore, between the ads from LG and Samsung, and the spying by Hyundai and Kia there's simply no reason to buy their products.
Don't literally all car manufacturers spy on everyone all the time to an ungodly degree? Not saying it's a good thing, but Kia and Hyundai aren't different here.
Someday in the future even our toilets will all be connected to the internet
Analyzing your poo for your safety.
Returning is not enough. Boycotting is not enough. We need to be marching on the FTC and Congress with torches and pitchforks about this shit!
Haha, that's almost impressive. But no, I will not be buying an LG monitor now.
I would return that shit immediately. There is absolutely no use for smart functionality in a computer monitor. I would suspect it's a TV sold as a monitor and will have the same issues as using a TV as a monitor.
I would call legal and IT. It's outside the scope of my role to accept contacts on behalf of the company.
Full page ads on the monitor for you with love from IT.
IT here, Plesse don't involve us... We don't want to to deal with this bs either
IT here, Yes, by all means involve me. I will buy a second monitor and plug it into a known box that is no business going anywhere. I will then block, at the network firewall level, any outbound traffic to anything that thing talks to. If it uses its own MAC address at the head end I will then collect and publish every connection that thing tries to make outside to a blacklist and provide it to the public.
Sounds way more interesting than most IT work as well. I'd definitely rather do some investigative work like this than a typical parade of password resets, email assistance, and software installations.
Nope.
Back in the box and straight back to the store.
Like that's the only thing we got left people and that's why they are making returns such a bitch now
I've kept mine disconnected from the internet. I worry eventually that they will force it to be online to be used.
Looks like it has smart functions, so same software as their TVs and you can actually just decline terms but some functions won't be available. It's not just one chcekbox so you can have some smart functions for some privacy. It's one of the better solutions. Anyway without internet there cannot be any tracking or ads so as a monitor it has just fancier osd.
Wtf??! Wow
