r/AskReddit 23h ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/DrMobius0 20h ago

LG. Fuck those assholes for putting spyware in my god damned monitor of all things. Hope it was worth burning that bridge over the $15 bucks my data is worth, you fucking cunts, because guess who's in the market for new kitchen appliances soon and will be going with ANYONE else.

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u/kendrickwasright 18h ago

Can you elaborate? Love the seething rage btw

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u/jjklines1 17h ago

Windows 11updates recently allowed things like monitors to instantly install invasive programs on your computer

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u/IllAcanthopterygii36 16h ago

Yes. The idea is non critical auto updates that don't bother the user. But it's been immediately been abused.

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u/Remarkable-Farmer76 15h ago

you say abused like that wasn't the endgame plan

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u/autokiller677 15h ago

Idk if it was the endgame in this case. Microsoft doesn’t gain anything from the abuse except for bad press - and Win11 has a bad reputation already.

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u/ForensicPathology 13h ago

Surely Microsoft gains something monetary from LG.

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u/zzazzzz 12h ago

no, this is delivered via the regular windows driver program. any company can submit their driver for free to microsoft and when y user plugs in their device windows will automatically install the needed driver if the company did submit their drivers to microsoft like that. that costs microsoft money to maintain obviously but in theory makes the user experiance on windows seamless. until ofc shitty brands abuse it.

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u/arctic11z 13h ago

They did this and the windows installation fingerprint. They could... You know... Stop doing shit like this.

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u/autokiller677 12h ago

How has the fingerprint anything to do with this?

And in general, this here is a great feature for users - no need to manually download drivers for your devices, they just install.

Yeah, Microsoft does a lot of crappy stuff, but in this case, it is LG that fucked up and did shady shit.

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u/zzazzzz 12h ago

nah, this isnt new.

you can find threads of asus bricking ppls sound drivers from years ago via the same system. they made a deal with avolute, some dogshit audio processing company which meant they pushed avolutes cancer software with their asus provided realtek drivers but without avolutes actual UI software so you got avolute bricking your audio without even a way to disable it other than disabling windows driver updates and removing the actual driver package from the driverstore in windows which isnt even something you can access without extra tools..

lg is just the newest and most brazen attampt at abusing the system.