Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
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
Whoever bought a smart fridge deserves watching those ads
I mean, nobody REALLY deserves it. Driving consumerism seems misanthropic. Marketing and Sales people feel like a drain on society. Anyone is welcome to change my opinion. Sell me this pen.
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Writing this felt horrible.
Ha! It always does feel slimy. I wonder how some people are capable of turning off that sense of self-reflection.
Good effort, but I’m going to default to writing with a pointy stick and my own blood like usual. I’m not allowed back at the DMV.
I don’t mind smart products, though I’m not sure what problem is solved by a screen on a fridge. That said, I do hate it when these devices need to rely on the cloud to function, and Ads I can’t tolerate–I usually try to block the DNS address for things that like to spy on me or show me ads.
This sort of stuff damages the Samsung as a brand. It makes me unlikely to consider Samsung for other products like TVs.
Enshittification, in my kitchen?!
You have to be pretty naive to not have seen this one coming from a mile off. But hey, at least people can see what’s in their fridge without having to open the door, what a luxury.
To be honest, I’d judge people who have fridges with a screen. Completely unnecessary. This problem is easily solved.
People that need to buy the newest, biggest, most expensive shit out of vanity always get judged. Just not the way they’d like.
Until they’re impossible to find without a screen, like dumb TVs are near impossible to find today.
My smart TV is a dumb TV so long as I never give it any internet connection.
Don’t buy dumb smart home devices or you get exactly what you deserve.
I used to work at a popular electrical retailer in the UK, and Samsung had come to our offices with some of their latest appliances, including a fridge freezer with a screen like this. They were trying to demonstrate the feature where you could look inside your fridge so you didn’t need to open the door, amongst other things, but it was of course a horrible laggy mess. I told the rep that nobody is going to use this after the first time and it’s just easier to open the door and look inside. You could tell he thought it was shit too but couldn’t come out and say it, but his smirk said it all.
knowing samsung they prolly force retailers to have at least one of these things on display if u wanna sell samsung products
it was of course a horrible laggy mess.
So the freezer froze?
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
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.
Are there even any dumb TVs anymore? The current lineup from CES 2025 is LG (OLED), Samsung (OLED), and TCL (MiniLED) which have great image quality options, but I’m fairly sure all are using a “smart” platform.
TCL doesn’t bother with software and uses Google TV. Samsung uses Tizen which is linux with another junk UI, though less painful than Google. LG uses webOS which I’ve heard UI side is better, but its still a junk UI on linux.
I remember reading that hotel TVs are an option. They also have an ad platform, but one intended for the hotel owner to send ads from, not some 3rd party. Not exactly dumb but also not as bad as regular TVs.
And of course a beamer or PC screen connected to some cheap small form factor PC is always an option, with Kodi or similar on it, i haven’t owned a TV in like 10 years, just using a small linux pc with beamer, and a tv tuner card in the past (nowadays my ISP offers all public channels on IPTV)
Literally the only reason my LG TV is hooked up to the wifi is so I can show my wife stuff from my Android phone. For everything else we have an Apple TV.
I can’t see any good reason to allow a fridge access to the internet.
Use apple cast
my Android phone
Hard to do AirPlay from a Pixel.
My condolences, looks like I missed that…
Even the $3000 Samsung TVs have ads if you connect them to the Internet. Noone is safe
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.
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…
I guess appliance engineers are just stupid and bad at their jobs.
The people spending money on parts definitely are.
Is that existed it would either close after 10 seconds and try and cut you in half, what would leave the door open for 5 minutes before doing anything.
But how else will you know you need to make an unnecessary purchase?!
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.
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.
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.
This it’s why there is nothing “smart” in my house.
Sorry, this is just a funny statement.
Nobody would be quoted as saying I’m smart, no need to apologize
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.
Sammobile apparently has 1660 “partners”, the fuck?
Well fine. No smart refrigerator then.
Btw, you could also just slap a tablet on any fridge.
