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LG TVs and monitors said to surveil users and install bloatware without asking
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this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2026
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Let me guess, proprietary drivers cause this and the open source or generic drivers lack “functionality”.
If it turns on, reaches its peek resolution and refresh rate that is good enough for me, I genuinely can care less for HDR or the nitty gritty features.
Monitors don't need drivers. Your GPU needs drivers, and you might need color correction for your monitor.
Microslop decided that any device that is plugged in might need drivers. They allow device manufacturers to specify an arbitrary program to be downloaded and executed by Windows Update, any time a device they make is plugged in.
And if that driver/software does evil or is so poorly written it meets driver verification but exposes vulnerabilities, how is that Microsoft's fault
Microsoft is the company that approved the software to automatically download and run as admin when a specific device is plugged in. The OEM submitted malware and Microsoft approved it. Both are at fault for letting malware download and run on your device.
In the case of vulnerabilities, MS is fully aware of this happening frequently and has announced they want to do something about it, but hasn't actually done anything about it.
Old monitors need it for absolutely nothing, like my 2020 LG. Every feature works out of the box, because it has to over display cables.
I think at most it adds an ICC profile, but it's not matched to the panel anyway and you can just install that seperately.