I assume this is using USB C? Another reason to not use generic ports but instead only ports that can only be used for video data. Absolutely crazy how bad things are getting.
EDIT: No, it seems like they're abusing Windows Update for it, so you'll have this problem as long as Windows is able to recognize what monitor you have connected.
Windows 8 under Balmer: We have devices that are Microsoft certified(forget what this was called, but they were not the most common, but anything from a Microsoft store had it) to not have shovelware and only have windows and necessary drivers.
Windows 10/11 under Nadella: Even if you carefully only install drivers from .inf's, Windows Update will load any shovelware the manufacturer's say to without question.
Every monitor I've bought uses HDMI. That's something I check before I purchase because because one of my computers doesn't have a DisplayPort jack. I didn't know that USB monitors were a thing but I'm unsurprised to learn they exist for malicious reasons.
No, that spyware gets installed as an agent on your operating system and collects far more than whatever the monitor company's spyware could ever hope to. It's far more dystopian than whatever you imagine, I promise.
Corporations do all that nonsense too. I once looked at my DNS logs for corporate laptop connected to my WiFi. Starting searching for what it was reaching out to. It's shocking. 24/7 phoning home telemetry and the volume DNS requests from a idle corporate laptop was more than the entire rest of my home network combined. I ended up setting up a specific Wifi and VLAN just to connect that crap to and then DNS blocking everything I could. I'm sure it still goes thru when it's on VPN, but I don't leave on when working. They also run everything at a snails pace. If I recall the last time I checked it had nearly if not the best CPU of any device in my entire house and there's so much bullshit scanning it runs like a 10 year old budget machine.
There's some cool features, but it's not something they had to do USB-C to offer. For example, I have a pair of Dell monitors on the desk I work at that are connected together, and I can run a single USB-C cable to a laptop and get dual monitors and laptop charging just from that cable off the monitor, no docks and such required. For me it's nice because I often am loaned different corporate machines to do work on and even after seeing this I couldn't care less if someone harvests all their corporate crap. I'm sure whatever could have been done with DisplayPort though, although I believe some versions of that and HDMI both support a data pass thru as well, albeit less commonly used.
I assume this is using USB C? Another reason to not use generic ports but instead only ports that can only be used for video data. Absolutely crazy how bad things are getting.
EDIT: No, it seems like they're abusing Windows Update for it, so you'll have this problem as long as Windows is able to recognize what monitor you have connected.
Ah, yeah that nonsense.
Windows 8 under Balmer: We have devices that are Microsoft certified(forget what this was called, but they were not the most common, but anything from a Microsoft store had it) to not have shovelware and only have windows and necessary drivers.
Windows 10/11 under Nadella: Even if you carefully only install drivers from .inf's, Windows Update will load any shovelware the manufacturer's say to without question.
Every monitor I've bought uses HDMI. That's something I check before I purchase because because one of my computers doesn't have a DisplayPort jack. I didn't know that USB monitors were a thing but I'm unsurprised to learn they exist for malicious reasons.
the government uses usb monitors in government offices because it enables them to "monitor" government employees with spyware mandated by the state
No, that spyware gets installed as an agent on your operating system and collects far more than whatever the monitor company's spyware could ever hope to. It's far more dystopian than whatever you imagine, I promise.
Corporations do all that nonsense too. I once looked at my DNS logs for corporate laptop connected to my WiFi. Starting searching for what it was reaching out to. It's shocking. 24/7 phoning home telemetry and the volume DNS requests from a idle corporate laptop was more than the entire rest of my home network combined. I ended up setting up a specific Wifi and VLAN just to connect that crap to and then DNS blocking everything I could. I'm sure it still goes thru when it's on VPN, but I don't leave on when working. They also run everything at a snails pace. If I recall the last time I checked it had nearly if not the best CPU of any device in my entire house and there's so much bullshit scanning it runs like a 10 year old budget machine.
There's some cool features, but it's not something they had to do USB-C to offer. For example, I have a pair of Dell monitors on the desk I work at that are connected together, and I can run a single USB-C cable to a laptop and get dual monitors and laptop charging just from that cable off the monitor, no docks and such required. For me it's nice because I often am loaned different corporate machines to do work on and even after seeing this I couldn't care less if someone harvests all their corporate crap. I'm sure whatever could have been done with DisplayPort though, although I believe some versions of that and HDMI both support a data pass thru as well, albeit less commonly used.