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Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 days ago by mulcahey@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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Monitor vendors are playing with fire.

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago (5 children)

LG lost some trust after a recent report that some of its monitors installed McAfee pop-up ads onto connected computers. Since at least 2024, some of these displays installed an app, LG Monitor App Installer, onto connected computers under the cover of driver updates installed through Windows Update.

Connecting the monitor to the computer triggers a Windows driver update. LG grabs that update request and returns an app that automatically installs itself. The implied consent is willfully connecting the monitor to the computer.

Avoid LG products.

[–] DeadPixel@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 days ago

*Avoid Microsoft products too!

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 days ago

That's called malware this is crazy

[–] grue@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

In a sane world, LG would be declared a criminal enterprise and executives would go to prison for massively violating the CFAA.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

I got a free LG monitor from an office closure near me. Didn't notice this because I'm a Linux person. Let someone use a Windows laptop with it via HDMI and it did that. Lol

[–] GeirGrusom@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's an oligopoly. They do this because they think that prople can't go to a competitor because Samsung is doing the same thing. The people that's supposed to keep this from happening hasn't been doing their job.