sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoLG’s changelog confirms its monitor app installs bloatware on Windows 11, exposing Microsoft’s long-standing problemwww.windowslatest.comexternal-linkmessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareThe Velour Fog @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoWhy tf do monitors need apps now? Buttons on the side. Basic settings menu. Gotten by fine for decades with that.
minus-squarefemtek@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoI believe from what I read it windows auto downloads it as part of the driver.
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoIt’s literally a documented design in the Windows store
minus-squareWereCat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoIt doesn’t. It’s just an adware
minus-squareZeoic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agomalware* Their software contains a wiretap
minus-squareLudicrous0251@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoRealistically, 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.
minus-squareUnityDevice@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoI 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.
Why tf do monitors need apps now? Buttons on the side. Basic settings menu. Gotten by fine for decades with that.
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
It doesn’t. It’s just an adware
malware*
Their software contains a wiretap
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.
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.