LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

? isn't this normal windows behaviour?

It's shit like this that caused me to start refusing to help my mom and her friends with their windows computers. I'm not going to support their shady activities anymore. If you want my help the first thing we're doing is installing Linux.

I have an LG monitor and I think I managed to avoid this by using Linux.

Good to know. LG is now on my blacklist.

I think this is how they are going to make us pay rent for what we bought. They will make everything unusable unless you pay more and make some cuckoo TOS saying that you agree to be held in contempt if you circumvent their measurements.

Honestly, if we don't push it back hard, it will only get worse and worse. Why we were cancelling people if they used wrong pronouns and suddenly we got tired of doing the same with stuff that we all should agree on that is terrible.

Last 2 were LG, been looking at a new one but I guess I'll go with another brand that has their panels.

And Razer, Logitech, nvidia and everyone else who has it's driver package accepted into WU.

No, you can't have a "(o) just the driver" checkbox because... honestly there are a lot of reasons and the device manufacturers are the guys who demand that in the first place.

All gaming brands try to install software with every driver update. AMD, Nvidia, Razer, Corsair, etc. The difference is LG made it silent, which is a big no-no. Pushback should be on LG, a respected consumer brand that should know better.

So I own 5 LG monitors. But now I can't buy LG. I also refuse to support Samsung.

Are there any high quality panel manufacturers left that aren't run huge pieces of shit? Or at least try to respect the people buying their hardware?

Oh, come on! LG force fed people with ads on TVs. And now everybody acts surprised?

Do. Not. Buy. LG.

There are a lot of decent alternatives. Stop buying from the sick heads.

we finally cracked self-installing software, it just turns out the payload is McAfee and the installer is an HDMI cable

If you had time to spend, I'm wondering if you couldn't sue LG or Microsoft in some countries for something equivalent of "hacking". Like intrusion in a computer network. As it is unsolicited installation of something that is unexpected.

As there is no consequence for them, again there is no reason that it changes or that it doesn't get worse in the future.

In Korea, pretty much all devices come with Windows. It's hard to live outside of Windows. Most programming is done in CPP,C#, and even when people use C, the majority are working on top of an IDE. The OS kernel layer only really appears in things like Samsung phones—the vast majority of work is on the application layer, and most consumers are on Windows on their desktops. It seems unavoidable

If you're using Windows on a personal device in the first place, you're pretty loudly declaring that your consent doesn't matter anyway.

That's not your computer, that's Microsoft's computer. You're the threat model they lock it down against, you're the schmuck that keeps them fed, and you're the possible terrorist/hacker to be surveilled, tagged, tracked, and monitored.

If you care about consent as it relates to your use of technology, you shouldn't be using Windows in the first place, and this has been obvious for well over a decade now.

Seems like every day I don't use Windows, the less I miss it lol

[Laughs in Linux/BSD]

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Beyond tired of the rape mentality from Microsoft and other evil mega corp's.

Remember when you used to own your "personal" computer?

Windows works well most of the time for most people. I have a couple of Windows PC's, both exotic and standard, and I get what I paid for out of them. Humans love to hyper fixate on the failure cases when they're bored, and this is just one of them for Windows.

Mostly anyone who has a need to work for privacy and making their own lives difficult by removing automations deserve working through the barrier of entry to do so.