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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Here is a private frontend for anyone who doesn’t wanna access twitters awful site:
https://xcancel.com/snwy_me/status/1847396175961641176/A monitor is an output device. It cannot transmit or operate on a network. (inb4 ethernet over HDMI: There is no implementation of the spec in the wild).
If there’s any ad tracking, it would have to be in your display driver on the PC.
Unfortunately we are not living in the age of CRT monitors being connected over D-Sub anymore.
(inb4 ethernet over HDMI: There is no implementation of the spec in the wild).
How about Thunderbolt? This looks like macOS, and while I’m not 100% sure if they utilize HDMI ports anymore, they certainly use Thunderbolt.
Does Mac OS automatically allow random connected devices outbound traffic to any?
Welcome back from the coma, I’m glad you made it through. We have Thunderbolt and USB-C now.
Report it as a bug. No matter if it was on purpose, a TV displaying ads is malfunctioning, they have to fix it.
Someday in the future even our toilets will all be connected to the internet
Analyzing your poo for your safety.
Seeing the word “smart” in a device description has become a warning flag.
LG is on my total boycott list. Samsung, HP, LG.
I bought an HP printer and God damn it… Never, ever buy a hp printer, and specially if you run Linux.
I have a HP printer that works perfectly fine on Linux. But it’s from 2015.
Brother is the way to go
Why? Doesn’t This exist, ik the hp forcing the software thing yes but is it bad on linux bcs of the software?
This just makes me think of every thread complaining about smart tvs and every comment saying “just buy a monitor!”
Indeed…
Me the second I read this: FUCK. THAT. 😠
Smart Monitor is the same as a Smart TV, not surprised
damn Telescreens
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…
Do they make thunderbolt cables that support only video, but not network access?
Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter and then an HDMI cable would do that, but more things to add.
So now we just need a MAC filter with a wild card at the firewall?
No more LG products in this house.
Why on earth buy a “smart” monitor. It is a computer. There is a smart device attached by definition.
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.
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…
Yeah it’s odd, maybe the monitor has a sort of usb-c -over-displayport ethernet adapter ?
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
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.
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Yes? There’s this thing called a web browser and you type in Netflix.com and behold: netflix!
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Exactly, so why would a PC Monitor need to have it’s own Netflix? The PC already has it.
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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.
Maybe because many streaming services have locked their 4k content behind some specific apps and platforms and not on general desktop PCs.
In other words, because abuse begets abuse.
But it’s trivial to torrent their content at whatever resolution I want…
I suspect that this is a smart TV being used as a monitor.
It says “Smart Monitor” right there in the pic.
It’s monitoring your activity and smartly displaying ads. Working as advertised!
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Seriously! What is smart about these things? It’s smart not to buy this bullshit. It’s 1984 doublespeak just like the “open” in “OpenAI”.
I was so pissed when I realised most of the feature on my smart monitor were disabled by disallowing network connection. especially when those features where present on my non smart monitor. Things like dual input so having two devices over HDMI / DPI display on separate portions of the screen was fine on my old lg ultra wide but on the new smart ultra wide it is disabled all because I won’t agree to they’re terms.
This should be illegal. That functionality has nothing to do with accepting ads.
This is really upsetting to see them get away with this.
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.
The warning icon should be a purple monkey.
You know I’ve not seen a bonzibuddy in a long long time.
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.
