Monitors Are Turning into Privacy Nightmares, Just Like Smart TVs

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. 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. 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. [...] Regular monitors should also remain widely available (just like they are now). It would be outrageous if dumb monitors were one day as rare as dumb TVs.