I thought the whole “your devices are listening to you in order to display ads” myth had fallen out of popularity
You mean the media stopped talking about it - it has no relation to whether it happens or not.
I see a lot of blocked requests in my OPNsense firewall (not sure what exactly) but I see that with almost all 'smart' devices (which I like to keep local).
The system I worked on never had fans in, but was rated to operate at 75C instead.
To date the market for these things simply hasn't had traction, at all, despite it being a long term dream of many display manufacturers. They also cannot resist the urge to go all in on inevitable privacy invasion stupidity, because they believe all the others will do it and so undercut them.
Oddly the generative AI wave is exactly what the marketing people thought they were missing when I was involved, since they wanted you to be able to describe something and have it just appear. Now you actually could.
DoctorOW•2h ago