Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator
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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
Well fine. No smart refrigerator then.
Btw, you could also just slap a tablet on any fridge.
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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
In classic fashion they’re doing it in a way where you can choose to not have them by not using particular display options, so that they can say with a straight face that they’re not forcing ads on you. Then once this bullshit is normalized and into everyone’s homes, making it non-optional on all screens is a much smaller leap in comparison.
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Shopping list, digital post it notes, etc.
People have been sticking important things into fridge doors since there are fridges.
Tablet is more flexible.
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I recall the hype was to keep track of groceries or some such gimmick. I feel it to be unnecessary tech. How convenient that it shows ads. In any case, do not buy a Samsung appliance. They are total shite and will break down on you. Fridges, washing machines, dishwashers. All garbage. The televisions are fine.
Agreed. Bought a washer/dryer set and the washer literally shit out in a year, with repairs costing as much as the purchase. Fuck them.
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Who could have possibly seen this coming…
This it’s why there is nothing “smart” in my house.
I do have a smart tv that’s not allowed access to the internet, and that’s because they’re all like that now.
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Why would your refrigerator have a screen?
Why would you buy such a refrigerator?
“because I’m a dumbass”
“because I’m a dumbass”
–dumbass
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So how are you gonna access the shopping list on the fridge when you are in the store (without using cloud services)?
Taking a screenshot of sticky notes on the fridge works as good as taking a screenshot of the fridge screen. So in both cloud connected and not clod connected scenarios, the fridge screen is not needed and functions as a gimmick.For just $15.99/month/user, you can store up to one thousand bytes of text in our super unsecured cloud service, and access it remotely with our Galaxy Pro Platinum Gold Fold Unfold Refold Defold Sync Edition!
*unavailable with any other devices, only available on our latest halo product, when we release the Galaxy PPGFURDSE 2026 in 3 months your device will become unavailable to sync with the fridge. Only available in 2, 3, and 5 year subscriptions, but we will kill the service after 17 months, no refunds.
Samsung. Because fuck you~.
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They do have a screen and Internet connectivity, but I don’t think that ATMs are actually a great route (unless they force people to stop and wait to get their money, which I don’t think will fly and will cut into capacity). There isn’t much eyeball time on them. The reason a car or a refrigerator works is because you’re likely to be around it a lot.
I will say that the rise of gas pumps at gas stations that play back advertisements is pretty obnoxious, though.
Please view this series of ads to retrieve your funds. Alternatively, you can retrieve your funds now for a $4.95 fee.
*this fee fluctuates based on several factors including but not limited to: the time of day, the number of detected people in line behind you, your estimated pulse, if you have overdrawn your account in the past [DECADE], if you are a cheap motherfucker on our lowest-fee plan, if the system detects that you are a pushover little bitch, if your credit score is less than 800, the amount of advertisements we detect you block from our servers, and more. Resistance is futile.
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Why would your refrigerator have a screen?
Why would you buy such a refrigerator?
Family calendar is the big one. I also watch YouTube and sports while cooking.
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Shopping list, digital post it notes, etc.
People have been sticking important things into fridge doors since there are fridges.
Magnetic whiteboard
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You carry a phone that supports these features in your pocket. Fridges don’t need screens imho
Blah blah blah, I don’t like the form factor so it’s unneeded. You people are insufferable.
Guess what, it is easier to look directly forward on an always on screen that’s going to have a common display like a family calendar of events for that day while I’m preparing my family for the day. I don’t have to find and unlock my phone, I don’t have to wash my hands and open up a calendar app. It’s right there, front and center, where it needs to be for the task.
Not everyone has their reflection burned into the screen holding them all day. Some people actually leave them in other rooms!
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“because I’m a dumbass”
“because I’m a dumbass”
–dumbass
You ever think you’re just not creative and alone?
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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
Only if you buy one.
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I recall the hype was to keep track of groceries or some such gimmick. I feel it to be unnecessary tech. How convenient that it shows ads. In any case, do not buy a Samsung appliance. They are total shite and will break down on you. Fridges, washing machines, dishwashers. All garbage. The televisions are fine.
Their TVs suck too. The remotes barely respond and they’re bogged down with ad-riddled garbage to the point I had to set up a parental lock just so I wasn’t force-fed trashy, outdated reality TV at 300 decibels when I power the damn thing on. Or worse, when the power goes out and it decides to blast at 3 AM. Unfortunately I didn’t make the choice to buy this thing.
Their phones are also locked down proprietary horse arse. I don’t understand the people who repeatedly pick the brand, but oh well.
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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
Im not buying anything with ads. If I have to buy a new flat screen tv, im making sure it can be used without the internet, and any ads can be removed through network ad blocking or other tricks.
Its never enough ads until every surface has an ad on it. Fuck the entire ad business. Making the world ugly.
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I recall the hype was to keep track of groceries or some such gimmick. I feel it to be unnecessary tech. How convenient that it shows ads. In any case, do not buy a Samsung appliance. They are total shite and will break down on you. Fridges, washing machines, dishwashers. All garbage. The televisions are fine.
All electronics are garbage now it’s almost like they want you to buy a new one every year.
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Why would your refrigerator have a screen?
Why would you buy such a refrigerator?
Why do gas pumps have screens?
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Shopping list, digital post it notes, etc.
People have been sticking important things into fridge doors since there are fridges.
Because not everything important is digital.
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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
I’m more than ready. I’m so ready that won’t ever buy a refrigerator with an internet connection in my life
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Who could have possibly seen this coming…
This was always the endgame of smart homes, creating continuous ad revenue from everything you own. It was never about consumer experience for big companies.
