And my keenness to use Ad-Blockers. I might be a man (could be a talking shrub too but that's beside the point) but I have no desire to see porno websites of any flavour or perversion. And that's what the ad-spammers seem to have shown me in the past. Click on a search link for a fuzzlewidget or whatever and up comes full technicolour porn. No thanks. Not for me.
Built In Chicago explains that "The company's digital sensors also help brands collect data on how consumers interact with their items." This is the kind of claim that makes me suspicious on two fronts: First, it probably strategically simplifies the nature of the data collected in order to understate the privacy implications. Second, it probably strategically simplifies how that data will be used in order to overstate its commercial value.
>> One of the strangest parts of Cooler Screens, to me, is Cooler Screens insistence that
consumers like them. I have never personally seen someone react to Cooler Screens with
anything other than hostility.
That's some grade A, prime, "enshittification" ( @pluralistic ) right there.
I honestly expect to see that in a dystopian sci-fi movie.
The #infosec person in me wonders where the interface is. Willing to bet a dollar that if it had any control at all, the password would be an unchangeable default.
@catsalad omg. the other day I was in a mall and wanted to find a store. All the maps were now touch screen computers and you had to touch a bunch of options to find it. It meant that people now had to line up one by one to find what they wanted, instead of stand together looking simultaneously at the same map. I gave up, it was going to take too long.
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