It. Is. Never. Enough.
You paid hundreds of dollars for a new monitor, but it doesn’t matter. More ads, more profits.
I hate it.
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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…
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!
Why not all 3?
Later or Agree
No Disagree optionA rapist mentality.
As with all these services, the “disagree” option is “stop using our devices and services” which really should be illegal when it’s tied to hardware you already bought it and the terms changed after the fact.
It’s our hardware so we should be able to select another provider or host our own. Not that I consider ad tracking a “service”.
I wonder how things would go if they made you agree to the terms before being allowed to purchase it.
People bring it to the till, and then just hand it back saying nope.
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
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.
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.
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.
Full page ads on the monitor for you with love from IT.
Wait, so the monitor has some sort of network capability?
I assume it’s full of streaming apps or something and they just also added this fun ad junk to it.
Both HDMI and DisplayPort feature USB/Ethernet data link capabilities, and obviously USB-C does as well.
This is dependent upon the version of the cable, and all other hardware involved, but this is well within the bounds of available ad/surveillance tech.
Yeah but what functionality does it provide to the monitor?
The ability to serve ads and spy on you…
Generally, we (sadly) see smart monitors come up like smart TVs did ten years ago.
Some noteable features include streaming apps (netflix…) and wireless screen mirroring from phones.
Wow, this is useless!
Seriously, who the hell use Netflix on a monitor when you have a literal pc connected to it that is way better.
Maybe because many streaming services have locked their 4k content behind some specific apps and platforms and offer lower resolutions on general desktop PCs.
In other words, because abuse begets abuse.
But it’s trivial to torrent their content at whatever resolution I want…
If it’s all the same driver board, they save on complexity of having different parts. I hate it but it’s true. Samsung gaming monitors now have to keep track of a remote to change settings.
A PC is…better than Netflix?
Yes? There’s this thing called a web browser and you type in Netflix.com and behold: netflix!
So what you’re saying is, you watch Netflix…with a PC?
I suspect that this is a smart TV being used as a monitor.
It says “Smart Monitor” right there in the pic.
Their TV does but I’m not sure how it works with monitors. Maybe it’s just hardcoded ads in their software. I don’t see how the monitor can have a network connection…
Ethernet over HDMI Ethernet over display port Ethernet via thunderbolt They could probably do something tricky with a driver and serial over HDMI
I don’t know about this one but several LG monitors actually have Wi-Fi built in.
Of course, If it was using Wi-Fi you could just not connect the Wi-Fi. But some manufacturers are getting smart and are able to use open networks to call home. You could open it up find the antenna and short it out directly to the ground plane
Yeah it’s odd, maybe the monitor has a sort of usb-c -over-displayport ethernet adapter ?
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Haha, that’s almost impressive. But no, I will not be buying an LG monitor now.
Some of my favourite monitors have been from LG but these days I get by just fine never buying any of their products and I will continue to do so. Eat shit, LG.
Why? What made you go from favorite monitors to “eat shit”?
This very thread
I’ve kept mine disconnected from the internet. I worry eventually that they will force it to be online to be used.
The only real risk from 5G is that connectivity will be cheap enough that these objects don’t need to ask.
Do they come with receivers to pick it up already? if so, that’s pretty sketchy
Not to my knowledge. But dwindling costs and ballooning greed will eventually cross.
Watch for “hassle-free updates.”
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.
Someday in the future even our toilets will all be connected to the internet
Analyzing your poo for your safety.
