Monitor Makers Start Pummeling Owners With Annoying Ads, ‘Smart’ Spyware

Initially the idea of the “smart television” seemed like a good idea. That is until TV makers realized they could make significantly more money loading the television with spyware, tracking your every online choice, then selling all that data to a global assortment of unregulated data brokers. It didn’t take long for product quality to sag and consumer privacy to become a distant afterthought in a country too corrupt to pass a modern privacy law or maintain the structural integrity of its regulators. I spent years pining for a “dumb” television to no avail; basically just a high quality large monitor with hardware HDMI inputs and switching and no clunky operating system (no, just not connecting it to the...

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