A Boring Dystopia

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Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 day ago by mulcahey@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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Monitor vendors are playing with fire.

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[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 36 points 23 hours ago (8 children)

Keyword is Windows thank goodness for alternatives

[–] inari@piefed.zip 6 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Linux becomes popular enough and this enshittification wave comes for us too

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

By the very nature of Linux it can't happen from a simple plug and play.

[–] GeirGrusom@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

I mentioned it somewhere else, but HDMI can carry an ethernet signal. They could potentially in the future show ads without having to deal with the OS at all. Of course you can just disable the network but most people won't know how.

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