That's probably the new Extended Dynamic Range setting from Plasma 6.4. You can find it in the display settings. It is meant to adjust the display's brightness to emulate an HDR display.
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The screen brightness adapts automatically to the windows i focus on, which is a good idea.
That's definitely not something Plasma is doing... Sounds like your monitor is dumb with "adaptive contrast" or just terribly implemented local dimming.
I believe you're talking about the challenges discussed here: https://blogs.kde.org/2024/09/04/brightness-controls-for-all-your-displays/
If both monitors are messing with your sensors, you may just want to disable adaptive brightness and manually control it. They don't seem to have a workaround for it as of yet.
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