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Technology@beehaw.org · 1 month ago

LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without user consent - VideoCardz.com

Connecting some LG monitors to a Windows PC may automatically install software that promotes McAfee subscriptions.

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What are you going to do? Sue them? Call 911? Ring up your lawyer?

“Operator, this company is doing some very illegal fuckery! Please arrest them right away!”
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  Uhhh, I was just sayin…

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