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Re:State of S3 – Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore – a person... by soco on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @05:26AM (#41443598)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but trying to show ads when the laptop lid is closed and the machine is in "sleep mode" (with quotes) is not exactly smart, is it. But again, if MS can still charge their advertisers for such silliness, maybe it makes economical sense (for MS).
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Re:State of S3 – Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore – a person... by JonChesterfield on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @05:49AM (#41443757)
Having the microphone on to capture useful information from the environment would be helpful for ad targeting, though I don't know offhand where on the spectrum from paranoid to expected behaviour that would be these days.
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