this change will solidify that I will never buy an LG product if they all have that shit
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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I have an LG monitor, but never again. This is absurd. If money is all they understand then I hope they have a rude awakening on account of this.
Great. Gonna have to get rid of my LG oled now huh?
Just castrate its access to internet. Initially you can full block it, in time people will figure out which domains need to be blocked. If they can't upgrade your firmware, they can't install these new features.
I suspect they'll include cellular radios in the near future so the appliance does not depend on the "consumer" to provide data access.
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Just vote with your wallets people. There are others that don't do this and nothing will turn them around after huge drop in sales. Remember when HP wanted to prevent people from recycling their toner. They had to reverse that decision. Or when Canon decided that your printer must be always online and then they had to teach people how to break their own printers. Lessons learned.
This little tidbit is left out:
In order to use LG's smart appliance features you must agree to allow the company to track your precise location 100% of the time via phone app.
I have 2 wifi enabled LG appliances, a refrigerator and a washer. A couple of the smart features are useful such as the end of cycle notification on the washer and a high temperature / door open warning on the fridge. Unfortunately those features don't work very well and there can be very long delays between an event (such as an end of cycle) and the app notification.
So not only is LG's implementation poorly done and not very functional, customers are expected to give up any semblance of privacy to even use them.
Fuck that. I disconnected my appliances from wifi and deleted the app.
Paying a monthly charge for the extremely limited smart features on appliances is nuts, even if you didn't have to allow LG to constantly track your whereabouts. I hope the general public is smart enough to make LG's subscription service a complete failure.
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