mulcahey@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 2 months agoAds and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors.arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square70linkfedilinkarrow-up1318file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-squareinari@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoLinux becomes popular enough and this enshittification wave comes for us too
minus-squaretaiyang@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoBy the very nature of Linux it can’t happen from a simple plug and play.
minus-squareGeirGrusom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoI 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.
Linux becomes popular enough and this enshittification wave comes for us too
By the very nature of Linux it can’t happen from a simple plug and play.
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.