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A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Remember just a few years ago, all the main tech companies and Government were gaslighting the shit out of everyone about the targeted advertising stuff? It's not listening to you! The ADs based on what you're talking about are just coincidental!
Maybe no one remembers this for some reason. Of course they just get away with all the lying
Connecting your tv to the internet is a terrible idea and has been for years. If you have webos and must connect it for some reason root it, block all updates (they rarely include bug fixes, just make the UI more sluggish with increased advertising), and block all lg ad domains in your router.
||snu.lge.com^ ||su.lge.com^ ||su-ssl.lge.com^ ||snu-dev.lge.com^ ||su-dev.lge.com^ ||nsu.lge.com^
Are the domains to block, formatted for adguard.
Yeah but this is going a step further. This is also happening for PC monitors which are a bit harder to keep away from internet seeing as they connect to your internet-connected computer. Router blocking will help there too of course but the average user will not be able to set this up.
The monitor thing is crazy because I have no idea why you would install software for your computer monitor?? Like the monitor itself isn’t connected to the internet and the adware comes from installing some lg monitor tools suite, and I have no clue why you would do that? Like are people really dead set on changing their monitor input via pc instead of the monitor osd??
Monitor should and does just work. Lg just scams people into installing unnecessary software because it’s harder to shove ads into a computer monitor
Windows does that automatically. The software is part of the LG monitor driver and is distributed through Microsoft's automatic driver setup infrastructure.
There's an obscure GPO that can prevent Windows from auto-installing "related files" but of course most people don't know it exists or that it's yet another core OS feature you have to turn off to use Windows in peace.
Windows
i found the problem /hj
/hj
Handjob? Never seen that tag before...
It means 'Hey Jude". You have to take a sad song and make it better.
Well a hand job can make most feel better too, at least for a short while.
“I turned it off but it got turned on again during the next update.” There is no peace. To use Windows is to constantly be at war.
To prevent this kind of thing in future, run gpedit.msc and enable “Prevent automatic download of applications associated with device metadata” under Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → System → Device Installation.
Thanks to:@floofloof@lemmy.ca
I didn't connect my tv to the internet, I never accepted the terms of service. All you're supposed to do is display what the HDMI tells you to.
Sadly the vendor that recommended this TV didn't get the message that I wanted a dumb TV
go away. m'batin
Is it 1984 yet
When I was shopping for a new monitor a while back I stayed away from "Smart" monitors with their own operation system. I'm connecting it to a computer, why would I spend an extra $600 when the exact same monitor without an operating system exists?
Look! You can watch Netflix on this monitor!
Well, yes, there's a PC stuck on it, of course I can.
No, you can watch it without the PC!
Why would I want to use a monitor without a PC?
It's only half again as expensive! It's a steal!
Tbf, you could probably actually stream Netflix at 4K on it since it gets limuted to something like 720p in the browser. But that's just because Netflix are bastards, not because of technical limits
Spherical bastards
“Please allow ads on this site. Click OK to learn more.”
Here's the Gamers Nexus report.
TechRadar is a shitty content mill that, in this case, basically just half-asses a summary of the GN video, embeds a few Reddit comments, and calls it ~~macaroni~~ journalism.
Thanks Steve!
Super short version for those who don’t want to fight the site, some lg monitors install upsettingly comprehensive spyware onto your computer.
Some lg tvs, years after purchase and with no warning, do the same thing to themselves. Like sleeper agents.
And I’m not talking “monitor the images” spyware, I’m talking “listen in on your every word and send the transcript to lg” level spyware. “We have clauses around wiretapping wormed into the user agreement” level spying.
This shit and flock is more what the explosion of data centers is about than LLMs having more power
Tries to read
"please allow ads on our site!"
Please fuck the hell right off.
The irony of a site talking about how invasive ads and tracking on TV are, making it impossible to read the article because of all the ads and tracking.
Edit: removed old link because of DOS attack from browser by archive.is
I have an "ancient" 720p dumb TV and I refuse to get rid of it because of shit like this. My disabled eyes can't tell the difference between that and 4k anyways
Dumb TV hooked to the HDMI out on my computer. Jellyfin.
Fuck the billionaires.
That won’t protect you, if you run Windows.
When Windows sees the device as LG through HDMI, Windows Update will pull in and install the adware.
Thats the outrage, here. They didn’t just sell something new, they retroactively enshittified dumb displays.
Do you have a dumb TV to recommend? I went searching online a few years ago and literally couldn't find anything other than giant digital screens used to show the menu at fast food restaurants.
Sceptre is about the only company left making dumb TVs anymore.
"Whoever came up with this......"
Executive with shit eating grin in the corner of the room
"And I'll fuckin' do it again"
Fighting the good fight with Pi-hole and I understand most people cant set it up or afford the hardware but its worth it.
Sorry if I'm daft but what's the pihole blocking? The "Live on LG channels"?
I have an LG OLED but I don't use the TV OS
Much simpler this way. Just don't connect the TV directly to the internet, all problems solved.
2 Spidermans pointing at each other and it's malwarebytes and McAfee Scam Detector
I have a LG oled tv and keep it off the internet because I keep hearing about crap like this
I connect it occasionally because it has been pretty unstable and I hope that updates will resolve issues, but seems they are more concerned about updating ads etc than improving the system software
I have a LG oled tv and keep it off the internet
I connect it occasionally
So then you don't keep it off the Internet, it would seem.
Surely there is some legal recourse? It's vandalism. They are putting things on YOUR property. Secondly, shouldn't they be paying YOU to lease your advertising space???
Is it possible to physically disable the mic on the TVs without adversely affecting other functions? I see no reason a mic to be necessary on a TV at all.
Probably, just cut the wire connecting the mic.
I did a quick search and other suggestions are to fill the "mic hole", stick a needle in the mic hole to damage the mic, and applying a soldering iron to the mic. My LG tv has no visible mic hole, so they are getting crafty at hiding them.
Not sure about LG, but other brands usually put the microphone on the remote