LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences

Later or Agree
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A rapist mentality.

Nope.

Back in the box and straight back to the store.

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!

This just makes me think of every thread complaining about smart tvs and every comment saying "just buy a monitor!"

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.

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.

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 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.

I would call legal and IT. It's outside the scope of my role to accept contacts on behalf of the company.

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.

That's tragic, LG monitors used to be great.

Why on earth have you let your monitor access the internet

Seeing the word "smart" in a device description has become a warning flag.

Haha, that's almost impressive. But no, I will not be buying an LG monitor now.

Louis Rossmann has LG as an anti-sponsor. He calls them out for their bullshit in some of his videos.

LG is on my total boycott list. Samsung, HP, LG.

Report it as a bug. No matter if it was on purpose, a TV displaying ads is malfunctioning, they have to fix it.

Why is it on the network anyway?

I've kept mine disconnected from the internet. I worry eventually that they will force it to be online to be used.

Here is a private frontend for anyone who doesn't wanna access twitters awful site:
https://xcancel.com/snwy_me/status/1847396175961641176/

damn Telescreens

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.

Smart Monitor is the same as a Smart TV, not surprised

Someday in the future even our toilets will all be connected to the internet

Me the second I read this: FUCK. THAT. 😠

I see sceptre recommended as a provided of dumb devices, although they also have smart ones.

Wtf??! Wow

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.