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LG TVs and monitors said to surveil users and install bloatware without asking
(www.notebookcheck.net)
I just never gave my smart tv network info.
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2026
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Smart TV's are such a dumb idea. Get an expendable side box that you have control over or can be disposed of when it enshitifies.
how the fuck can a monitor install software to a computer the second HDMI is plugged in.
Why is this even a feature that is possible.
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Talk about a company that has enshitified, I had an LG TV from 2008 that still worked when I gave it away a couple years ago, the LG TV I bought in 2019 has already died.
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.
I think my LGTV predates a lot of this, thankfully. I've had it since 2020, but there are still several settings (like 'ad personalization') that I have turned off, and I never connect it to the Internet on purpose.
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