This isn't even the case for those LG monitors, they trigger a Windows Update download for malware.

Or, as is the case with my Samsung monitor, they have Bluetooth always on.

Conjecture: This, I believe, is so it can find and talk to other Samsung devices that ARE connected to the internet and phone home.

Why buy these kind of monitors in the first place ?

I think there are plenty of monitors that don't have weird online requirements or spyware in it so why buy them at all ?

Everytime someone buys a monitor like that they normalize the practice.

A monitor has one job -> displaying images.

If it requires internet for a device that does not need it, it gets send back to the manufacturer with a complaint.

So the next solution is to let it connect to your network but then block it at the firewall. That way you have full control over what it sees.

It is a dumb arms race between consumers and the devices they purchased