A Boring Dystopia

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

submitted 2 days ago by mulcahey@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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Monitor vendors are playing with fire.

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[–] lordziv@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would love to see how these malicious notifications would occur if you are running Linux. I know it's not the point as it is about the principle but I assume this monitor would effectively become 'dumb' if running from an os where it's not capable of installing any drivers.

[–] mulcahey@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Great point