Your LG TV may get an unremovable Microsoft Copilot app in its next update, and yes, users are annoyed

If there's one thing that would stop me from buying one of the best TVs in the current world of everything being online and connected, it's the fear of the manufacturer taking a perfectly good TV and spoiling it. And that's exactly what some LG owners think is happening to their TVs in the latest update.

The conversation is happening on social media including Reddit's r/mildlyinfuriating subreddit, where users are discussing an LG firmware update that automatically adds an unwelcome app: Microsoft Copilot. And to make things worse, once the app is on your TV, you can't remove it.

This is proving roughly as popular as the time when Apple forced a U2 album into everybody's iTunes library. Whether it was a good album or a bad album* didn't matter. The issue was that Apple forced an album on ...