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Connecting an LG Monitor to a Windows PC Trigger the Silent, Unprompted Installation of Adware (consumerrights.wiki)
submitted 2 days ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Monitor requests Windows OS to install monitor company's software, Windows installs whatever they want.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Not quite, Windows detects the monitor being attached and goes "Oh? What software goes with this?" and downloads the package provided by LG.

The monitor doesn't say "Hey, I want you to download this", Windows does that on it's own.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wait, since when does Windows install apps and not just device drivers?!

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Exactly the problem!

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Apps being bundled with drivers is not that new. I swore off Razer hardware years ago because their fucking keyboard decided to install a bloated app alongside it - during OS installation as well! A blocking installer, fucked up my unattended install.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago

Okay that's a funny one tho, microsoft makes a bad features and can't even code it properly lmaoo

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure windows has supported installing drivers that include program installs since windows 7. Razor mice also do the same thing where it auto installs the control software.

[–] Miller@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

This exchange is very polite, I think the truth is closer to an encounter with the Borg.