Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
The only smart feature a fridge needs is a beeper for when the door has been left open or water filter needs changing. It sure as heck doesn’t need WiFi.
Mine is so “smart” that it doesn’t properly detect that it’s open with a cm or so gap. At least it beeped furiously when it detected that the freezer section had a dangerously high temperature half a day later.
What it actually needs is a little motor to close itself. If it knows I left it open it should be capable to close itself instead of crying like a useless piece of junk.
An expensive motor that breaks, or decides to close on you when you’re looking inside, or…
No, I won’t because I’m not stupid enough to buy an Internet connected ad machine refrigerator.
I wonder if it’ll be like TVs, which are cheap as fuck for a really nice TV, but equipped with garbage like Alexa and Amazon fire.
Right now, you can buy a $200 “smart” TV, or a $1800 “dumb” TV. I wonder if fridges and other appliances will go in that direction.
Even the $3000 Samsung TVs have ads if you connect them to the Internet. Noone is safe
I mean if it doesn’t make sound I’ll get the cheap “smart” fridge and just cover up the screen, if it’s a high quality fridge besides the screen, no problem.
To be honest, I’d judge people who have fridges with a screen. Completely unnecessary. This problem is easily solved.
Until they’re impossible to find without a screen, like dumb TVs are near impossible to find today.
People that need to buy the newest, biggest, most expensive shit out of vanity always get judged. Just not the way they’d like.
On the plus side, considering the average lifespan of Samsung appliances, you probably won’t have to put up with it for very long.
Much better than my current Samsung fridge where that obnoxious Samsung rep has to come every week to plaster a new ad on the door. At least it won’t leave glue all over the floor.
And this is why I avoid Samsung products entirely. Vote with your wallet.
I avoid “smart” products — especially those with screens — for this reason.
I wonder how are you posting that comment…
You got me. I’m posting from my refrigerator.
I’m still holding out for when they finally put out a Linux fridge
Get ready to buy good quality, inexpensive refrigerators, without tech connectivity. Automatically adding tech to everything, just because it is new and shiny, isn’t always the right way to build your products. It sure fucked up the car industry.
Those will die off soon enough, through forced obsolescence and an inability to compete with ad-subsidised junk that spies on you.
All the terrible touch features they’re adding to cars these days makes me think a brand new car today would go obsolete before a 10 year old used car with 100k miles. New cars are unrepairable because of how complicated they are.
Only if you buy one.
My understanding is Samsung, at least as an appliance company, had tanked on quality over the last decade or so. I had all Samsung appliances until every one started failing slowly.
Not sure how they hope to survive with shit products AND a poor user experience.
They will cry into all their ad-money.
All the useful idiots wasting their money on this crap are getting exactly what they deserve.
I’ve been hearing about how shitty Samsung appliances are since 2018.
Who is buying these?
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.
Advertising should be illegal.
It should be optional for free at least.
Forced ads should be illegal. It’s quite literally wasting peoples lives and a lot resources.
I’m more than ready. I’m so ready that won’t ever buy a refrigerator with an internet connection in my life
No,
not giving them money is only answer that anyone should ever considerPi-hole is useful for a lot of other things too.
I bought a child cam system and noticed it pinging home for updates, and shut that off real quick thanks to Pi-hole.
But it misses the point
Missing the point.
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.
