sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agoLG’s changelog confirms its monitor app installs bloatware on Windows 11, exposing Microsoft’s long-standing problemwww.windowslatest.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareThe Velour Fog @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down1·6 hours agoWhy tf do monitors need apps now? Buttons on the side. Basic settings menu. Gotten by fine for decades with that.
minus-squareLudicrous0251@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 hours agoRealistically, they dont, but LG’s PR team will probably give you a speil about updating firmware, bringing new content aware features to the screen, etc. All bullshit so they can get more data from you.
minus-squareWereCat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 hours agoIt doesn’t. It’s just an adware
minus-squarefemtek@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·6 hours agoI believe from what I read it windows auto downloads it as part of the driver.
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·6 hours agoIt’s literally a documented design in the Windows store
Why tf do monitors need apps now? Buttons on the side. Basic settings menu. Gotten by fine for decades with that.
Realistically, they dont, but LG’s PR team will probably give you a speil about updating firmware, bringing new content aware features to the screen, etc.
All bullshit so they can get more data from you.
It doesn’t. It’s just an adware
I believe from what I read it windows auto downloads it as part of the driver.
It’s literally a documented design in the Windows store