This started with a pop-up on a monitor in July. By September it was packet captures, a lawyer reading LG's terms, and LG telling reporters the whole thing is untrue. Here is everything, in the order it happened.
All four are Gamers Nexus, who broke both halves of this. View counts are whatever YouTube showed when we last looked.
LG told outlets the claims in the investigation "are not true." This is the answer: the denial taken apart line by line, with new capture data and a lawyer's reading of LG's own agreements.
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The big one, made with Level1Techs and researchers MrBruh and uturn. Network scans, neighbouring Wi-Fi, transcripts with the screen off, roughly 4GB of viewing data a month, and unpatched code execution in webOS.
The wider sweep, published the day before the investigation: LG's webOS, smart TV vulnerabilities and content recognition, alongside licence-plate cameras and what AI firms do with collected data.
A $1,200 UltraGear installs LG's app on camera with nothing asked. The McAfee offer turns up on 31 of 32 boots, and LG's wiretapping-consent language gets read out on air.
Titles, dates and view counts read off the channel listing on Sep 12. Everything here links out to the original.
Everything the site cites, in date order.
Reader reports have filled in more of this than any single outlet. If you have a capture, a first-connection test or a piece of coverage we've missed, send it.
Why a PC shop is publishing this: we build and support computers for a living. When hardware starts installing adware on our customers' machines without asking, it lands on our bench, so we tested it and published the whole chain. The television work belongs to other people and we credit it as theirs. There's nothing to buy here. More about CEC ↗