Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator
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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.
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And this is why I avoid Samsung products entirely. Vote with your wallet.
I avoid “smart” products — especially those with screens — for this reason.
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Everyone should know this. Share it.
Hero. There’s only one gas station I use that has ads and I’ll try it there for sure. I deliberately avoid screened pumps.
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I would love to load up custom ROM though… What annoys me the most is lack of RTC battery, because the time resets whenever there’s a power outage.
They made an Internet-connected fridge and didn’t put an NTP client on it?
Oh it has internet time sync. But the problem is… connecting to wifi with invalid time is problematic. There are internet check endpoints with certificates that can’t be verified. On the off chance that it does connect, I get a zillion certificate errors from different background processes.
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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
On the plus side, considering the average lifespan of Samsung appliances, you probably won’t have to put up with it for very long.
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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
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.
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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.
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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
No, I won’t because I’m not stupid enough to buy an Internet connected ad machine refrigerator.
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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
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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.
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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
To be honest, I’d judge people who have fridges with a screen. Completely unnecessary. This problem is easily solved.
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I avoid “smart” products — especially those with screens — for this reason.
I wonder how are you posting that comment…
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I wonder how are you posting that comment…
You got me. I’m posting from my refrigerator.
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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.
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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
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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…
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Why would your refrigerator have a screen?
Why would you buy such a refrigerator?
So you can see the inside of your fridge while never seeing the inside of your fridge. /s
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No,
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Why do gas pumps have screens?
Only in banana republic would customer be less valuable than ad revenue
Normal ones, yes, even 3rd world countries:
have counters only (minimalism).
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I would love a monitor on my fridge (it’d be better than most of the dusty old shit on mine right now. ) But I would want to have complete control of the hardware attached to that screen
I hope a DIY mod community springs up to help people take back the machines they own.
Yeah a small screen showing time, day, weather, moon phase, sunrise/set, moonrise/set and daily/weekly schedule would be awesome. I have friends who keep a weekly meal/social schedule on their fridge and when I was staying with them mid move it was really convenient to have what’s going on so prominently displayed
I haven’t been able to get home assistant working but I imagine it has something for home displays like that with a fair amount of customizability
Ads and the news are two things I absolutely don’t want on my refrigerator. This is a large eye level object in the room that days begin in. They’re putting ads there because they know its a really convenient place to display useful information.
