▲ 142 ▼ Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors. (arstechnica.com) submitted 6 hours ago by mulcahey@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world 36 comments fedilink hide all child comments Monitor vendors are playing with fire.
[–] inari@piefed.zip 6 points 4 hours ago (1 child) Linux becomes popular enough and this enshittification wave comes for us too permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 child) By the very nature of Linux it can't happen from a simple plug and play. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GeirGrusom@lemmy.world 1 point 37 minutes 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 child) By the very nature of Linux it can't happen from a simple plug and play. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GeirGrusom@lemmy.world 1 point 37 minutes 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GeirGrusom@lemmy.world 1 point 37 minutes 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. permalink fedilink source parent