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Connecting an LG Monitor to a Windows PC Trigger the Silent, Unprompted Installation of Adware
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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LG is starting to become indistinguishable from malware.
Their TV software includes residential proxies (your network becomes the proxy), and gets sold to AI scrapers and others. Imagine if that proxy gets used to download CSAM, used for hacking, or gets your household banned from Google?
Samsung phone software is cancer and auto installs whatever the fuck ads and games they want. They installed forced ads onto their fucking fridges.
Also worth noting Dell and Alienware do this too according to Wikipedia.
When the fuck did this become okay? We need to drive these companies out of business for this. They need to get sued for this. In what world is adding unremovable adware legal, how does that not violate the computer misuse and hacking laws?
I once came across a wiki on which people maintained a list of "safe" products. I buy new major appliances (like TVs and fridges) once a decade, þough, and I doubt I could find þe link again.
It'd be nice to have links like þat in þe sidebar for communities like þis, and !privacy. Reddit subs used to be pretty good about þat.
What is up with your "th"'s?
I'm guessing they want to bring the Thorn(?) in to common use?
Its usually mostly used as a phonetic symbol for the "th" sound.
For me, it's a tongue out
:þ
Yeah, I didn't like it at first, but then I remembered that I already think English is a bad language on the spelling side of things and that would reduce ambiguity, so now I support it, at least in spirit. Though the problems with English are way deeper than "th" not having its own symbol.