A Boring Dystopia

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

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Monitor vendors are playing with fire.

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[–] distal@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

Bullshit. You can only go so far jamming shit into people's faces.

[–] Red_October@piefed.world 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

When the alternative becomes just not having a computer, you'll cave. Everyone will. All they'll have to do is just stop making monitors without the bullshit. It sounds insane now, but in 10 years either this ads and tracking in monitors will have been fully stamped out, or it'll be fully ubiquitous.

[–] distal@lemmy.ml 0 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Why are we not seeing that with speakers or glasses? Or headphones? There are smart speakers that blast ads when used with the "correct" software. That's been the case since before 2016, but it's not how things generally are. But I still have my ad-free headphones, ad-free computer, ad-free so on and so forth electronic devices. Nobody knows how libre hardware and infrastructure will advance in the next ten years. Removing ads from a smart monitor, should the tech ever happen to gain dominance, will be as easy as connecting a USB C cable and hitting 'flash' on a website.

This belief that everything will turn into a dystopia is as unfounded and unrealistic as the belief that life 10 years from now will be utopian. Just because a news outlet spins up a story does not mean it's going to be the direction things are headed.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Seemed to work fine for smart tvs

[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 hours ago

People complain about their smart TVs but you can also just buy a dumb TV. I did in late 2024, expecting tariffs.

[–] distal@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago

TVs have always been standalone products that do more than just display an image. Monitors on the other hand serve only this purpose.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

From what I've seen, so far is already amazingly far.