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[Gamers Nexus] DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns (i.ytimg.com)
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DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

When plugged in, maybe windows recognizes the monitor is LG and it's an auto download? That was how it seemed outlined in the video.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago*

    That’s precisely what it does.

    Monitors can transmit their IDs over HDMI/DP, so then Windows update checks against its database and sees there’s a driver for this device.

    To reiterate, it doesn’t actually do anything to the monitor though. Just your Windows install. I think the driver is ostensibly there to install a generic color calibration profile, but as you can see that’s just a pretense.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    @Washedupcynic Pretty much, yeah — Windows fingerprints the connected display (via theEDID it sends over HDMI/DP) and pulls a matching driver from WindowsUpdate automatically. The catch is that same recognition step is how adevice ID gets logged on your side. That's the exact thing I got obsessedwith and ended up building Blacklight for — it's open-source and local,and it shows you these hidden IDs (masked by default) so you can actuallysee what got recorded. blacklight.tools

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