'Pretty revolting': LG's TV and gaming monitors are getting huge backlash from users due to reportedly installing PC software without asking you, and insisting that you get consent from your guests so your TV may record their conversations
www.techradar.com
Does LG now stand for 'Listening to Grandpa'?

…due to seemingly installing adware on PCs and telling you to warn guests they may be recorded by AI features, to comply with ‘wiretapping’ laws

  • Squizzy
    2·
    20 hours ago

    Yeah absolutely how I watch youtube but if there was a big screen way I would be so in. I wont pay google thought

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      20 hours ago

      I presume the LG OS is some version of Android. If you can get into the admin menus or use an android streaming box, there are several YouTube alternative apps that don’t show the ads. Pipe pipe is y favorite.

      • quadrant5835@lemmy.zip
        2·
        20 hours ago

        Not android, actually it’s WebOS which Palm developed first on their Pré line of smartphones before being bought out and then subsequently destroyed by HP. HP sold the OS to LG who has been putting on their TVs ever since.

        WebOS was way ahead of it’s time and actually did a lot of things that both Android and iOS later copied years later.