LG Calls a Critical YouTube Video 'Fake News'
LG Says We're Fake News [video]
A Hacker News thread digs into LG's video response to a critical report, which the company labeled fake news. Commenters note the clip's original YouTube title was far more aggressive, calling LG's reply manipulative and gaslighting, and speculate that the change came from A/B testing of titles and thumbnails, a practice YouTube actively encourages.
The original YouTube title of the video I got a few hours ago was: 'LG's Manipulative, Gaslighting Response to GN Report.' Either they changed it for some legal reason, or YouTube allows for A/B testing of multiple titles for engagement.
- dgellow
This „we own the glass“ idea is completely insane. How does an industry degenerate to the point where they consider acceptable to base their business model on owning part of the product they sell you?
- hadlock
I deeply regret buying my LG. Originally the plan was to never connect it to wifi, and use an external device (chromecast, apple tv, or whatever) but my wife was too excited to try out whatever features. Unfortunately we can't sell the TV for anywhere what we paid for it new (to replace it with a different brand) so we're stuck with it for another ~7-10 years, or whatever the standard TV replacement interval is these days. New "apps" keep showing up on the main screen, which I have to "delete" from the main screen once a month or so (they're not deleted, they're just undeletable apps in some massive library of preinstalled spyware we can fortunately mostly hide). Apparently Sony OLED screens are LG "glass" but without the spyware.
- sumedh
I asked Claude to scan my network and check if LG tv is sending data, it said yes. Some domains were blocked by my router some were not, now Claude blocked all lg related tracking/ad domains on my router.
Domains which are blocked now.
prov-lg.alphonso.tv au.info.lgsmartad.com kic.cdpbeacon.lgtvcommon.com au.nextlgsdp.com kic.tv.wiselg.com kic.wiseconfig.lgtvcommon.com kic.homeprv.lgtvcommon.com kic.recommend.lgtvcommon.com au.elastic.lgwebostv.com
- karim79
Honestly an incredible and educational video. The sheer effort of what went into this is astounding.
All my TVs are LG and I bought a fancy one for my mother and sisters. Now I'm having nightmares and trying to figure out what the hell to do.
- MisterTea
Who's selling dumb TV's again, Samsung? Who else? I'll happily pay a thousand bucks to not get screwed by my TV.
- kdmoyers
I have an older LG Smart TV. It was cheap and big. I have never plugged it into my network, never let it on my wifi. When I turn it on, it complains for 5 sec, then displays what's on hdmi1. Works for me.
- bpbp-mango
Is there an open firmware for LGs?
- 725686
Boy, how I would like LG to be sued out of existence.