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Connecting an LG Monitor to a Windows PC Trigger the Silent, Unprompted Installation of Adware
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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Okay, that is way different than what I understood as the built in apps have them
Thanks for mentioning that
Sure no problem. I just found a link that talks about it if you were curious to read a bit more. https://spur.us/blog/smart-tv-apps-residential-proxy-sdks
These are the same SDKs uses in a lot of PC and mobile games too. This explains why bot/scraper traffic has exploded in the past couple of years. My small company's site gets well over a million hits a day, about 4% of that traffic is valid. It's total bullshit.