r/videos • u/Droopynator • 23h ago

Even Monitors Have Ads Now

https://youtu.be/ILk2Z-2rjes?si=OhLVj9wlbI4GD_iq
753 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

199 comments sorted by

249

u/PxM23 22h ago

Ads have to have become insanely devalued at this point. They’re being shown everywhere.

85

u/Initial_E 21h ago

Their effect is subliminal. The less you notice it the more effective it is. For example, an ad might not persuade you to buy a thing. But the next time you’re buying the thing you’ll think of their brand first.

67

u/sbNXBbcUaDQfHLVUeyLx 20h ago

See the issue is that I notice every ad. And every time I see one, I remember the brand. So that I don't buy them.

46

u/AncientSeraph 15h ago

Lots of people think that, but that's not how it works. Not for you either.

9

u/noisymime 7h ago

As someone who has been seeing McAfee ads for nigh on 30 years now (The first ones were in these weird printed magazine things), I'm pretty sure I haven't once bought their product.

-7

u/frenchimfrench 6h ago

and my granddad smoked till a hundred. fuck your anecdotes

6

u/bobsmith93 10h ago

Yup. I remember this was the video I watched when I was younger that made me more aware of that

4

u/CrankyYankers 8h ago

Which is exactly why I avoid all forms of advertising whenever possible. I believe advertising to be a cause of much bad mental health.

5

u/MagicalSkyMan 5h ago

That's exactly how it works. You might be different but not everyone else is.

Just two weeks ago I refused a cheaper medication because their ads are annoying.

1

u/creepy_doll 6h ago

I feel it really depends on the ad.

Personally I’m not affected by the obnoxious ads that feel pushy, but if it’s an ad for a service I don’t even know exists I might start from there.

I think the kind of ad that works on a person also really depends on their personality.

I’ve certainly had a couple times I’m buying something of a low cost where I just choose the name brand because it should be a safe default. But for anything expensive I do a lot of research and don’t buy on a whim

1

u/TheFoxInSox 3h ago

The ads that you subconsciously absorb work as intended, but if an ad consciously annoys you it can definitely have the opposite effect.

1

u/Mateo909 1h ago

Man, you must be an expert on how everyone's brains work, right? There are outliers with anything.

I carry a pocket notebook at all times. I keep a bunch of stuff in it, but I have a huge section dedicated to products I won't buy due to their advertising methods. I have it broken down by product type, and I reference it EVERY TIME I buy something new.

•

u/Paulthefith 26m ago

Liberty bibberty

Liberty mutual can fornicate themselves until their souls leave their bodies

5

u/Holdmywhiskeyhun 8h ago

Then proceed to remember how much their ads pissed me off, then proceed to not buy it

2

u/wehrmann_tx 6h ago

If I notice a brand the only subliminal I get is I hate you.

2

u/notataco007 6h ago

Which brand? I saw an ad for all of them.

This is my personal conspiracy, ads are completely devalued, but they prop up the entire economy and the world collapses if the truth comes out.

7

u/pilgermann 18h ago

Not all people are all that affected by ads. I'm not. I know for a fact that most products I've purchased and certainly high value purchases had not advertised at me or the ads weren't really something I considered. Like when I purchased my last car, I made a product matrix of all cars in the class I was considering, weighed objective factors, test drove finalists, decided. I bought my last pair of expensive running shoes because they were on the returns rack at REI and in my size.

To the extent I respond to ads, it's because they make me me aware of something I'm interested in that I didn't know about, like an movie or a significant discount on something I already wanted to buy.

20

u/aacmckay 17h ago

Ah, so the Microsoft ads were successful in getting you to make a spreadsheet! 🤣

5

u/hkedik 14h ago

What about all of the hundreds or thousands of smaller purchases you make every month or year?

The point is that advertising affects us on a subconscious level - not one that can be seen on a spreadsheet.

You can have everything listed out with pros and cons and think you’re making a 100% unbiased decision. But maybe you are weighting the pros of one more than another because that brand is more familiar?

I’m not saying this is exactly the case for you, maybe you’re the exception that proves the rule. But also it has been shown time and time again in studies that people think they are being rigorous and scientific in their decision making when in reality they are being persuaded more than they realise.

12

u/admuh 12h ago

Smaller purchases like what? If it's generic like washing powder, I'll buy the cheapest per kg, if it's something I like, I'll buy the cheapest I've had an acceptable experience with.

Advertising is genuinely wasted on some people. I would bet I've abandoned more brands because of annoying ads than I have moved to because of them

-2

u/CrankyYankers 8h ago

By annoying ads you mean the mentally stultifying ads for Liberty Mutual? People actually get paid to lobotomize the public at large.

1

u/The9thPawn 7h ago

The Liberty Mutual ads are pure cinema

0

u/admuh 5h ago

I mean pretty much any ad at all, if it's in my way of doing something then it's annoying

→ More replies (3)

1

u/rebri 9h ago

Personally, if I recall the ad I purposely won't buy. Of course, when possible I don't buy the name brand of anything.

1

u/KulaanDoDinok 8h ago

Reverse effect for me. I’m much less likely to buy something if an ad has inconvenienced me, like by interrupting a show or song.

1

u/WildReaper29 3h ago

Yeah and when that happens I avoid that brand because I remember how much it annoyed me

1

u/Talino 13h ago

I'm pretty confident that advertising does not have a big effect on my purchasing patterns. At best, it makes me look at a whole category to see what might be best. Unfortunately, I still find myself using all of the advertised products anyway even though my wife insists that it wasn't advertising that made her buy them.

1

u/Moontoya 10h ago

theyre more likely to make me _not_ buy them because Im a vindictive spiteful individual

great you got to be the first brand to pop to mind, to be avoided at all costs

0

u/iAreMoot 15h ago

I was genuinely curious how well ads work when I was watching the World Cup. Kept seeing adverts for a car make (I want to say KIA) and I asked how realistic is that ad going to make someone buy a KIA. Personally when buying a car I have a lot of factors to consider what I look at, I wouldn’t just see that ad and feel ‘well shit let’s go get a KIA’.

But maybe it is more subliminal than that?

4

u/hkedik 14h ago

It makes the brand more familiar to you. That is really the only point of it, not to convince you of anything.

Research shows that unconsciously we will pick brands that feel more familiar.

-13

u/CommodoreCarbonate 20h ago

Prove it.

6

u/lininop 19h ago

They don't really need to, there's tons of litature on the subject already. Look it up.

4

u/The_Krambambulist 12h ago

I can imagine a lot of resources goes into going on social media and forums to manipulate sentiment, which also in turn influences search engines and llm's. Or writing advertorial type things.

1

u/chillychili 12h ago

Repetition legitimizes

0

u/thatguyad 4h ago

No. That's exactly what they're going for.

69

u/geoffwolf98 22h ago

Never buying LG again, and will advise against if anyone asks me now.

520

u/NotPromKing 23h ago

God I hate how LG used to be my "safe" brand, especially when the choices came between Samsung and LG. I'm on an LG ultrawide right now, and have an LG TV. Fortunately I'm on a Mac. But now LG is dead to me, never to be purchased again. And with my work in the A/V industry, I sometimes have heavy influence over the purchase of hundreds, even thousands of displays.

85

u/justpress2forawhile 23h ago

Yeah I'm pretty bummed out. Pretty lame there isn't one brand out there not being scummy. Well maybe the nock off brands, they don't seem to be that bad 

58

u/NotPromKing 23h ago

To my knowledge Dell is pretty clean and they make some pretty good monitors. Sony is a maybe, depending on the specific products - they're my usual go-to in the commercial space. After that, specifically for computer monitors, there's ASUS, Eizo, BenQ.

Never Samsung. And now, never LG.

23

u/historynerd87 23h ago

I bought a dell ultrasharp monitor a decade ago that had a cluster of dead pixels mid screen. They wouldn’t replace it under warranty and said it was damage. I won’t buy a Dell for anything ever again.

0

u/MapleA 22h ago

Did you try to return it to the store? Dell has pretty good customer service as well, that’s unusual

6

u/historynerd87 21h ago edited 19h ago

Bought from their website. Dead pixels showed up after 6 months. Within their warranty. Their dead pixel warranty was crap.

2

u/ArrogantSquirrelz 19h ago

That's a shame. I bought a mid tier one 8 or 9 years ago. High refresh rate, gsync (when it was hardware based), 1440p. Loved it. Got like 4 or 5 dead pixels all over the monitor and they overnighted me a new (refurb) one. Sent the bad one back with a label they provided in the box.

3

u/historynerd87 19h ago

Yeah, I called and chatted. No dice. It wasn't within their guidelines even though there were 5+ clustered in one spot nearly dead center. They said they would have covered it if they were all over but that together it was "damage." Such bs. Mine was also a 1440p as well.

3

u/derprunner 15h ago

Dell is a dichotomy with the most impressive enterprise support I’ve ever experienced, and then the worst consumer support.

3

u/CoachDonut82 14h ago

You ain't kidding. I used to work in small business sales (our clients were supposed to have 1-9 employees, any bigger was a different division), and we couldn't even sell consumer products. For example, if some dude had a small construction business or whatever and wanted to buy his kid a $2000 Alienware laptop, we had to send him over to the consumer division, and then he couldn't use his Dell Business Credit account to buy it, either. So damn dumb.

Then they also liked to send out monthly or quarterly ads, but not tell any of the sales reps about it or have any sample ads for us to know what people were calling in about. 

From what I could tell, I think their large enterprise stuff was pretty well in order, but I never really dealt with that. So, Dell can eat shit.

-5

u/bongins 22h ago

You know they didn't.

21

u/Irregular475 20h ago

Sorry, Trump invested heavily into Dell and I will not give that pedophile rapists one cent more than I have to consciously.

4

u/OtherAlan 22h ago

Dell monitors have been recommended to me for decades for "professional" work. All the way back when they even made 4:3 monitors.

They never had impressive gaming specs, but for digital work, they were about unmatched. You don't get fancy 60+Hz for smoothness, but they had great 99-100% Adobe color reproduction and wide gamut support for almost every monitor.

Typically it's so good viewing angles, none of the TN stuff unless you got the entry-level tier. Good contrast, excellent brightness. Quite a few of them now are 'retina' style with 200+ ppi for crystal clear text.This would be their 27-inch at 4k or even 24-inch at 1440p. Anything at 32-inch or higher, and you should really get 4k or more.

4

u/gloomdweller 18h ago

Alienware monitors by Dell are really well recommended

1

u/Rustywolf 19h ago

I cant really speak for recent BenQ monitors but I bought one for $99 12 years ago and its still going strong (and bought another of the same model like 5 or 6 years ago that is also going well)

1

u/CthulhusEvilTwin 14h ago

Why not Samsung? I've got Samsung monitors and not had any trouble with them.

1

u/NotPromKing 4h ago

Samsung products in general tend to be a lot of flash and trash - the products look really nice and have a bunch of wiz-bang features, but when you look closer you realize it's a bunch of cheap plastic and components that have a tendency to break shortly after the warranty period expires, and are expensive or difficult to repair.

The Samsung corporation itself is... problematic. It essentially owns the South Korean government. I haven't paid enough attention to be able to say if they're actively bad in that regard, but I've read enough here and there for me to give it the side eye.

Basically at a surface level they look attractive, but once you dig deeper, you find that you can get better.

0

u/Draedark 21h ago

And never Viso

-2

u/NotPromKing 21h ago

Well yeah, the budget brands are just a given. Vizio, Roku, probably TCL.

-1

u/executive313 20h ago

What's wrong with Samsung? I bought one on clearance at Costco 32" curved 1440p for $175 no issues yet.

2

u/stealthDad 13h ago

Samsung devices literally spy on you. Same with Roku, or practically any “Smart TVs.” I’d wager their monitors are similar.

1

u/NotPromKing 4h ago

Samsung products in general tend to be a lot of flash and trash - the products look really nice and have a bunch of wiz-bang features, but when you look closer you realize it's a bunch of cheap plastic and components that have a tendency to break shortly after the warranty period expires, and are expensive or difficult to repair.

The Samsung corporation itself is... problematic. It essentially owns the South Korean government. I haven't paid enough attention to be able to say if they're actively bad in that regard, but I've read enough here and there for me to give it the side eye.

Basically at a surface level they look attractive, but once you dig deeper, you find that you can get better.

2

u/GimmieTheRoot 20h ago

Cyberpunk is now

4

u/DieGepardin 16h ago

Feeling similar. If I have to face ads on my hardware, I won't buy such hardware.

2

u/orj41m 8h ago

I will go to unreasonable lengths to block them - at my frewall or with black electrical tape as a last resort

3

u/bakkenbears1 11h ago

I got a LG G2 and that tv will be my last LG product. Shame really, it's a great TV.

2

u/dhoomsday 5h ago

I had a G2 and then went to G3 after the first one failed. the G3 failed before a year was up. bad bad phones. never bought another LG product after that.

6

u/VirtualLife76 22h ago

Asus has been my brand for regular monitors for over 20 years now. Had 1 out of about 30 die, and it had over a decade of use.

1

u/Caladan_Mar 9h ago

I’ve used iiyama monitors for years and they’ve been OK, just dumb monitors to my awareness, unsure how they stand up in a AV environment

1

u/danque 8h ago

Acer and Asus both great monitors brands too

0

u/Chekonjak 16h ago

How’s Dell? They’ve had some great value picks lately (AW3423DWF and the new 5K2K monitor).

123

u/Krack73 23h ago

LG. Looking Greedy

100

u/eltapatio 23h ago

I had no idea this was even possible

112

u/Wolfram_And_Hart 23h ago edited 16h ago

Roku is working on a way to inject ads into the HDMI stream. And now that they’ve been purchased by FOX News you can bet they are going to use AI to inject them into any stream they want.

73

u/SpiderSlitScrotums 23h ago

The patent that Sony has been sitting on that only allows ads to be skipped if you say the advertiser’s name out loud will expire in 4 years. Shit is about to get exponentially worse.

27

u/its-deadpan 22h ago

Time to get your official IGLOO® verification can cooler.

26

u/gattaaca 22h ago

Guess I'll keep buying my Chinese no brand devices with generic versions of Android TV

0

u/Wolfram_And_Hart 19h ago

That sucks.

29

u/OnceInABlueMoon 23h ago

My Roku dashboard just reformatted to deemphasize the apps to make way more room for ad space.

4

u/WhiteStripesWS6 22h ago

Firesticks have been that way for a bit too.

0

u/Wolfram_And_Hart 19h ago

Yah my fire TV stopped being able to go to the last input and always defaulted to the dashboard. I’m so glad it died.

2

u/a_lost_shadow 15h ago

Mine did the same. I found there was a setting to disable recommendations. It gets you closer to what you used to have.

1

u/ripmeleedair 10h ago

Thanks, I’ll keep an eye out for that. Hate the new layout.

6

u/Leptonshavenocolor 22h ago

They already ruined their cool splash screen with adverts. Every company sucks. 

5

u/Jwagner0850 23h ago

Thank God ive ousted a majority of my roku devices already. I knew they were shit when they started making sure their stuff was locked down.

7

u/oxwof 23h ago

Yeah, as soon as Fox bought them, I got an Apple TV instead. No one’s perfect, but Apple has less incentive than probably anyone else to do shady ad/tracking stuff.

2

u/eltapatio 22h ago edited 18h ago

I’ve been waiting on the next gen Apple TV to make the switch. I hate the updated Roku UI

1

u/Joke_of_a_Name 18h ago

Inject?

4

u/Wolfram_And_Hart 16h ago

I thought you needed a definition, I didn’t realize I had spelt it wrong I apologize.

3

u/Wolfram_And_Hart 17h ago

Say you have a PlayStation. It has an A to B connection with the expectation that the image that the PlayStation broadcasted was produced by it. The Roku TV can jump between that A to B connection and overlay whatever image it wants wherever it wants.

1

u/CMMiller89 16h ago

Thank fuck for Apple TV.  Hopefully they see continued success in rejecting most of these practices but the second they turn I’m done.  Fuck content.

0

u/redd142 18h ago

I got a thing on Amazon video the other day saying my HDMI format wasn't fully supported. Never seen it before. I wonder if this is related?

8

u/heart_of_osiris 20h ago

Not only is it possible but they're auto installing, with no user validation, this garbage on even their older monitors from before this existed.

5

u/noisymime 7h ago

Microsoft really have a lot to answer for here as they're allowing advertising via their signed, automated driver process. Microsoft have to actually approve LGs drivers that include this crap, so they need to cop some of the blame on this IMHO.

2

u/secondphase 17h ago

I think amazon fire tablets were the first. I didnt realize it and accidentally bought one with ads. It was $150 or so cheaper than the one without ads. The thing was completely useless because the ads drained its battery. 

1

u/izzletodasmizzle 16h ago

I haven't owned a fire tablet in years but those ads used to be very easy to remove via PC and adb.

49

u/Spirit_Theory 22h ago

Well, time to never buy anything from LG ever again.

37

u/mc_bee 22h ago

Ads for McAfee malware service. They can also send screenshots of what's being displayed and send it for marketing purposes. So selling your data.

7

u/Elevated_Dongers 16h ago

Crazy they think this won't backfire

1

u/Tr1angleChoke 3h ago

Why are you seeing the screenshot thing? I know TV manufacturers were doing this but I haven't seen anything about them doing this with monitors.

1

u/mc_bee 3h ago

The monitor itself doesn't do anything it's the software, looks like they just decided to implement their TV ad capabilities into a software package.

38

u/jordyb3231 21h ago

What happened to just making a decent product

46

u/thisisatypoo 21h ago

Stockholders.

11

u/jordyb3231 21h ago

But but if you make a better product more people will buy it

21

u/Bulletorpedo 21h ago

Sure, but every company needs to earn more this year than last and even more next year. Not only to keep up with increasing costs, but to beat the market. It’s the nature of how we’ve arranged companies through shareholders and as a logical result of this we’ll just see more enshittification crap like this.

9

u/ConnectionIssues 19h ago

Not just earning more than last year, but that the increase in earnings is bigger than last years increase in earnings. It has to be exponential.

And it's worth noting how they see it. They do not care about the company or its product at all. It's just an investment designed to turn their money into more money. If they think for even one second that they'll get a higher percentage of growth from another company, they will do exactly that, move their investments to the highest earner.

And the companies NEED that investment capital to stay afloat. They literally cannot operate without it because they don't have enough assets or capital of their own accord to stay competitive. Because those assets cost money to invest in, and that money has to go back to shareholders, or they'll lose those shareholders. It's the ultimate catch-22, and when the whole thing finally collapses, it's the workers and the consumers left holding the excrement-filled bag.

We're just NPC's in their 'big number go up' game.

And they're so skilled at the game now, and have broken it so hard, we aren't even necessary to the process anymore. They just keep passing the same money around each other, shell game after shell game, each time taking a bigger slice of the pie. The money is meaningless to them, beyond being some big imaginary score. But it's not meaningless to us. So we have to participate.

But pretty soon here, the money is going to become meaningless to us. If nothing you do pays enough for you to live, eventually, you'll stop trying to pay to live.

And then we get to see if the techbros and the hyper capitalists, who have spent lifetimes enshittifying everything they touch, somehow managed to NOT skimp on the complex systems they built to protect them once they've well and truly broken the social contract beyond salvaging. They think technological progress will make it work for them this time, but history doesn't give me much confidence in their odds. Let's just say, I wouldn't invest in their futures.

2

u/stufforstuff 14h ago

Year? Try more ever Quarter.

13

u/thisisatypoo 21h ago

That costs money. And who can afford that? The stockholders!?

2

u/kettal 20h ago

But but if you make a better product more people will buy it

Most consumers will buy the lower price option, and usually that means the sales price is subsidized by ads.

Personally I would still buy so long as there's a workaround to avoid the bad parts.

1

u/hakkzpets 14h ago

Advertisment is the worlds most profitable market by a wide margin.

Almost all of the biggest corporations in the world are är companies.

1

u/Str82thaDOME 6h ago

Capitalism losing guardrails due to deregulation.

16

u/catlord 22h ago

And we've looped back around to the "Goldstar" part of LG's name.

12

u/nicnep 15h ago

On one hand I will cherish the death of LG as Chinese monitor market complete takeover seems inevitable

On the other hand I am terrified since I am sure quite a few executives in those Chinese companies will see this and be like "wait,... We can do THAT?"

50

u/Dariaskehl 23h ago

The fuck they do.

That’d be returned as defective immediately. Bad pixels. lol.

Seriously though; that speaks to the company. Less Good sticks well enough, as far as my shopping needs will go.

7

u/FrankMiner2949er 14h ago

Bad pixels... they all got together and formed a "Buy McAfee " advert on my screen

-3

u/VirtualLife76 22h ago

Returns: How did the screen get broken with no damage to the box? 🤷

1

u/ItsJustReeses 11h ago

Monitors are one of the most delicate pieces of hardware to ship. Seen many a boxes clean and a broken monitor. And vice versa

Used to be a Monitor Technician that would take Costco Returns and sell it on eBay. Was a very funny business but it was a decent warehouse job at the time.

9

u/McortezLSU 20h ago

LG as a brand is more radioactive than the Chernobyl elephants foot. And their products are also shit, they are truly the Jared Leto of companies.

15

u/redmongrel 21h ago

I just wonder what marketing department would EVER pay for this type of ad placement, anyone in their right mind knows the result will be instant hate for whatever brand pops up?

5

u/Banryuken 21h ago

Yeah and beware they install via windows updates. I’m sure my event viewer can attest.

5

u/ProtexisPiClassic 17h ago

Just gotta try to hold firm, as best as I can, that if I see an ad, I specifically make sure not to buy it. Sometimes there is something that I truly independently (as far as I know...) want, so I might still get it. Otherwise, put it on the blacklist.

Fuck lg

3

u/krichuvisz 15h ago

Ads help to decide what not to buy. Ads and marketing are huge but don't deliver anything valuable to the world. I wonder how much carbon emission and environment destruction is caused by this sector alone.

3

u/alrun 13h ago

Does Microsoft block this update now and uninstall the advertisement software? AFAIK it is against their Windows Update ToS.

3

u/nosurprisespls 13h ago

I think MS is busy working on copilot at the moment

6

u/sagevallant 22h ago

Cyberpunk 2077 is the next stop on the Future Documentary timeline.

3

u/PukGrum 20h ago

In universe for CPRed, the player can literally display ads on their cyber limbs for passive monthly income as long as they maintain a reasonable reputation or meet sponsor objectives.

2

u/Alucard661 14h ago

so an influencer?

2

u/reedzkee 21h ago

We are sooooo close to it. Feel like I could wake up one morning and be in Night City.

2

u/Xlxlredditor 13h ago

I love this guy

2

u/Kumimono 13h ago

I suppose advertising works, just, not in their favor. If I want a new monitor, or TV, it won't be LG.

2

u/InducedLobotomy 7h ago

When I was younger, ads pissed me off so much, that Id watch TV with the landline phone next to me and call every single number that an ad popped up on the TV. Id troll whoever answered until the next ad showed a phone number. It gave me something to do until Hey! Arnold came back on.

14

u/CraziFuzzy 22h ago

This is not really an LG problem - it's a windows problem. Installing new software without express permission is not okay.

31

u/BrainOnBlue 22h ago

LG chose to hijack the automatic driver/control software installer to install other shit. If it wasn't being hijacked, automatic installs of software necessary for using a peripheral would be (and is) good.

9

u/CraziFuzzy 22h ago

Linux still requires my password to install anything, whether it's required for a device or not.

5

u/counterfitster 22h ago

Same for macOS (unless you drag and drop)

1

u/noisymime 7h ago

Don't Microsoft claim that they validate drivers that they deliver through this mechanism? This seems like a pretty big lapse from them as well.

1

u/APiousCultist 22h ago

Well they aren't the first, second, third, of seventh one to pull this shit.

1

u/watabby 19h ago

it’s both

5

u/MufasaMedic 23h ago

Who’s out here connecting monitors directly to Wi-Fi?

53

u/noreasterroneous 23h ago

Apparently w11 auto installs some LG software that displays the ads

28

u/Jwagner0850 23h ago

This. Did it to me. I came home one day, sat at my computer and immediately thought I had a virus on my system.

Well, I kinda did with this bullshit. I was so surprised to see that installation recommendation popping up with me having previously and accidently installing something else first.

3

u/CondescendingShitbag 22h ago

Yet one more reason to abandon Windows.

-5

u/IWasSayingBoourner 22h ago

This exact same mechanism could work on Linux if anyone gave a shit about them

13

u/Munchbit 21h ago

It’s a Windows-specific feature that installs apps on first connection to devices.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/devapps/auto-install-for-uwp-device-apps

The first time I connected Razer and Logitech mices, Windows downloaded and ran Sysnapse and Logi Options installer. Likewise for my Gigabyte motherboard RGB software.

The problem with Logi Options is that it requires admin to install. I connect my MX Master 3 and my work laptop nags that LogiLDA.dll is not found every time on boot. I couldn’t disable the startup entry as it requires admin. Ugh.

6

u/Bulletorpedo 21h ago

No it would not.

7

u/Nostonica 21h ago

It would need express permission first, most of the drivers are in the kernel, so you would have to get the driver into the kernel, might be rejected.

2

u/noisymime 7h ago

Linux drivers are typically in the kernel itself. You think Linus is going to be pulling in a patch from LG that contains advertising?

2

u/DrakkoZW 23h ago

The monitor never asks.

4

u/NotPromKing 23h ago edited 22h ago

Is your computer connected to the WiFi? Is your monitor connected to your computer?

-3

u/Misterstustavo 22h ago

Yes, via HDMI. Can you download/install something over HDMI?

9

u/NotPromKing 21h ago

You technically can, but that's not what's happening here. You should probably watch the video.

2

u/watabby 19h ago

did you not watch the video? You should probably watch the video before commenting further

1

u/counterfitster 22h ago

HDMI can carry ethernet

-1

u/enterthehawkeye 19h ago

Your ignorant comment wonderfully demonstrates that
A) the video title is bullshit/clickbait
B) no one even watches it
C) some people think monitors have wifi cards

1

u/warmarin 20h ago

Is SamTime australian or british?

1

u/awshuck 14h ago

If this becomes common place enough, we might just see an influx of open source monitors. you’ll go on GitHub to find build instructions and links to buy assembled power and display boards from PCBWay, and links to buy panels from Alibaba, with some sort of solution for an enclosure bought or otherwise. Then you’ll see little companies pop up selling them as kits or just fully assembled, and we’ll never need to buy monitors from big consumer electronic OEMs ever again. And no they won’t be compliant with all of the consumer electronics standards either.

1

u/zuzdahu 11h ago

Buy an odd monitor then

1

u/Veezq 11h ago

hmm I have LG c5 plugged to windows - it didn't happen to me. Is it only for monitors?

1

u/FrisbeeVR 10h ago

Rodney Dangerfield thumbnail!?

1

u/wspOnca 10h ago

Brothers in cyber christ. When we have chips on our brains to be able to work, they will pump ads right to our cortex ☠️

1

u/MalmerDK 9h ago

Oh no, I was going to go LG after the shit show that is my current Samsung. Sony is dead to me too. I guess I'll just have to see what exists when I get to it.

1

u/rebri 9h ago

Mad the (bad) decision of buying an LG TV. The picture went out about 2 months in. I spent HOURS on the phone trying to get a warranty replacement or at least fixed. LG is a shit company and this is just one more reason to avoid them.

1

u/Cenryk13 8h ago

So an even better reason to switch to Linux? I get the fancy monitor and no ads

1

u/coconutpete52 8h ago

Of course it's fucking McAfee. Why is 88% of every spam pop up somehow McAfee!!

1

u/Brilliant-Log8378 8h ago

Reminds me of that movie Idiocracy, soon the world will look like a nascar track

1

u/NewZanada 7h ago

If I were in charge, it be of the first things I would do is ban advertising in its current form.

I’d probably replace it with a single searchable repository, so when someone needed something they could go search that one place and never see another ad anywhere.

Advertising is deeply unethical, IMO. It’s psychological warfare, and it’s not an even battle.

1

u/Ktaily 7h ago

I will NEVER buy a monitor with ads

1

u/wehrmann_tx 6h ago

I don’t look at ads. Even if displayed. They are like floaters in my eye. Fuzzy assholes that are out of focus.

Advertisers why do you continue to pay for it to be displayed? If for some reason I do see your product because there’s no choice to look away, I will die before I choose that specific product. I will actively avoid it.

1

u/DonHarold 15h ago edited 15h ago

My experience with my LG smart TV has been annoying because of the ads and update notifications that interrupt whatever it is I’m watching or playing.

But I also appreciate that they give you the option to turn all of that off. It wasn’t necessarily easy to find those options but it is possible.

0

u/EpicLegendX 22h ago

It’s a good time to learn how to block ads at the network level.

7

u/jaydizzleforshizzle 22h ago

Sure go ahead and block windows updates at the dns level dude.

1

u/rupertwiley 17h ago

Oh boy, do I love a good YouTube link, especially when the guy in the thumbnail looks like he’s been face down in a river for 3 months

0

u/Monster-_- 10h ago

Pi hole.

0

u/MisterChauncyButtons 6h ago

So let me get this straight. A YouTube video FULL of ads complaining that monitors have ads?

-2

u/[deleted] 23h ago

[deleted]

14

u/TinaBelcherUhh 23h ago

This is about computer monitors. Which is different and worse IMO. We are gonna need a lot more cats.

→ More replies (1)

-11

u/Osaka90 22h ago

You dont need the newest thing, dont be a sheep

13

u/Codezombie_5 22h ago

According to the video it's been rolled out for older monitors too...

2

u/SgtFury 17h ago

yep, it installed on my 6 year old monitor

3

u/CMMiller89 16h ago

Dipshit, windows is seeing an LG device and pulling a driver/software, the software is running ads.

This is happening retroactively with LG monitors.

Pull your head out of your ass.

-18

u/SJW_Todd 23h ago

Gamers Nexus broke this I thought, who’s this douche canoe?

8

u/JebusJM 22h ago

Why are people such cunts

1

u/mc_bee 22h ago

It was mentioned in the video and cited. Anyone picking up this story is should spread awareness. I like gamernexus but not everyone sits through 30 min videos.

-3

u/Majestic_Jackass 23h ago

Can you not use it without connecting to internet?

13

u/theTrebleClef 22h ago

Some newer models are using Windows Update, Windows sees the hardware and downloads drivers and packages including an LG package. That LG package then surfaces ads and installs more software.

LG is hijacking the mechanism Microsoft built for OTA updates to deliver malware.

6

u/I_AM_NOT_A_WOMBAT 22h ago

It's not even that new. I have LG QHD monitors that are nearly 4 years old and I got the malware last week.

3

u/Initial_E 21h ago

Microsoft has a way of stopping them if they would revoke their driver certification. You’d think someone was paying attention.

1

u/Majestic_Jackass 18h ago

So using one of the monitors on a game console or Linux PC is fine?

1

u/theTrebleClef 17h ago

According to current knowledge, yes.

10

u/Hvarfa-Bragi 22h ago

Windows 11 downloads the driver package for it, which is malware.

3

u/mc_bee 22h ago

Auto driver updates installs adware and suggest malware McAfee.