Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors.
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智能电视中的广告和追踪功能已引发隐私担忧，而如今显示器也开始出现类似趋势。据报道，LG部分显示器通过Windows Update以驱动更新为名，在连接的电脑上安装“LG Monitor App Installer”应用，并推送McAfee弹窗广告。文章指出，若厂商不采取更透明的隐私政策并避免不当广告，显示器将逐渐沦为智能电视式的隐私隐患。
Ads and tracking have turned TVs into privacy nightmares. Both are so widespread among smart TVs that I’ve written a guide for avoiding them. One recommendation in that guide is to use a computer monitor. But in recent years, monitors have become more capable of pushing ads and tracking users.
Without more straightforward approaches from vendors, such as easily comprehensible privacy policies and avoiding inappropriate ads, monitors are dangerously encroaching into smart-TV-like territory.
LG monitors’ McAfee ads
LG lost some trust after a recent report that some of its monitors installed McAfee pop-up ads onto connected computers. Since at least 2024, some of these displays installed an app, LG Monitor App Installer, onto connected computers under the cover of driver updates installed through Windows Update.
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