At first I thought the title meant ads were somehow baked into the monitor itself, but Windows auto-downloads LG drivers and the LG software has pop-up ads. Which is still awful, but not as dystopian as I first thought. lol
I suppose they could’ve included the ads in the firmware that comes with the monitors and then display them as an overlay in the similar vein as monitor settings or any of the gaming enhancement overlays certain monitors offer. Though then they couldn’t change out the ads without also including internet connectivity within the monitors… and you’d need to use the buttons on the back of the monitor to navigate to/out of the ads
So including them in an auto-installing app is probably the more convenient option. Either way, we shouldn’t give those cunts any ideas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
At first I thought the title meant ads were somehow baked into the monitor itself, but Windows auto-downloads LG drivers and the LG software has pop-up ads. Which is still awful, but not as dystopian as I first thought. lol
Oh, ffs.
Yea, not quite as bad, but holy hell fuck you LG
I suppose they could’ve included the ads in the firmware that comes with the monitors and then display them as an overlay in the similar vein as monitor settings or any of the gaming enhancement overlays certain monitors offer. Though then they couldn’t change out the ads without also including internet connectivity within the monitors… and you’d need to use the buttons on the back of the monitor to navigate to/out of the ads
So including them in an auto-installing app is probably the more convenient option. Either way, we shouldn’t give those cunts any ideas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯