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.
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.
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 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!
/s
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”.
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…
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
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