I’m using an LG as a monitor for years and I’ve never seen this.
Recent models
Makes sense. Too bad, they are my favourite tv brand.
Windows users really will put up with anything.
“Bloat me daddy”
Window`s time has past, let it RIP.
Windows also installs HP Smart app because it sees printers…
Yep. An LG Ultragear monitor I’ve owned for about a year and a half just installed its crap somehow this morning on my work laptop which it’s been connected to for that long. I’m pretty sure however it’s doing it somehow bypassed the group policy and controls my company is enforcing on it. There’s no way they’ve white listed that kind of bloatware crap with how locked down they need to have these devices.
Sounds like a fun lawsuit. I say elevate that shit to the top.
Right? I plan to alert the relevant sec folks today.
guess I’m going back to VGA then.
(just kidding, I use Linux)
Pretty sure old VGA shit doesn’t transfer metadata about themselves.
Pretty sure it did. DDC has been a thing since forever. It certainly existed on VGA.
Interesting. I was fighting with KDEs implementation of ddc today because it’s fucking crashing my power management system when the monitors go to sleep. I didn’t realize it went that far back.
The first version of DDC is from 1994
Why tf do monitors need apps now? Buttons on the side. Basic settings menu. Gotten by fine for decades with that.
I believe if you want to set up picture-in-picture on LG monitors, you have to use their application - the osd menu can’t do it for some reason.
Realistically, they dont, but LG’s PR team will probably give you a speil about updating firmware, bringing new content aware features to the screen, etc.
All bullshit so they can get more data from you.
It doesn’t. It’s just an adware
malware*
Their software contains a wiretap
I believe from what I read it windows auto downloads it as part of the driver.
It’s literally a documented design in the Windows store
