Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors.
Monitor vendors are playing with fire.
Monitor vendors are playing with fire.
The short version
- Each month, we’ll examine the biggest controversial changes to tech products: what changed, why it’s happening, how users are affected, and how companies can do better.
- Ads and tracking have turned TVs into privacy nightmares .
- Both are so widespread among smart TVs that I’ve written a guide for avoiding them .
What happened
One recommendation in that guide is to use a computer monitor. But in recent years, monitors have become more capable of pushing ads and tracking users.
Why it matters
Without more straightforward approaches from vendors, such as easily comprehensible privacy policies and avoiding inappropriate ads, monitors are dangerously encroaching into smart-TV-like territory.
Summary by Nerd News Network. Read the full article at Ars Technica via the links above and below.