Technology

Tfw u set up Pihole so ur fridge stops spamming you with ads.

This would already be illegal if we didn't live in corporate dictatorships.

Anyone who fell into the trap of buying a fridge with a screen in it kind of deserves this.

"Innovation" used to mean better prices and/or better products. Adding adverts to a product you already own isn't innovation.

call me old-fashioned, but you don't need a fridge with a fucking screen in it.

Why the fuck would you buy a smart fridge.

It was bad enough getting ads at the gas pump

Don't connect your devices to the Internet if they worked before without the Internet.

The easiest thing in the world is not to connect your fridge to the internet.

Also don't buy Samsung refrigerators they are truly truly horrific.

I'm an appliance repairman.

If you have gone out of your way and intentionally purchased a fridge with an internet connection and a screen frankly you deserve this. What did you expect? Screens have advertisements on them, why else would they put a screen on there.

I hate the enshittification going on everywhere but I'd say the whole smart fridge thing was pretty shitty to begin with...

I see a bright future for "low tech" tech companies soon.

"Here's our new fridge.

- What does it does?

- It cools your food.

- And?

- That's it."

when you buy an over-engineered appliance, if i feel like spending extra $$$ for a fridge, i'd rather go for quality steel panels and compressor, not an screen with wifi

Next model will come with a latch that won’t unlock the fridge door until you’ve watched a 30 second ad or are subscribed to SnackPass+ for 29.99$ a month.

👏 You 👏 Don't 👏 Need 👏 A 👏 TV 👏 On 👏 Your 👏 Fridge 👏

It's a fucking box that makes things cold. Humanity is cooked if we can't bring ourselves to look away from a screen for all the time it takes to get a slice of cheese out of the fridge

Just duct tape an iPad to the refrigerator door. It’s cheaper and it works better.

I need my fridge to maintain a cold temperature on the inside. That’s it. That’s 100% of what I need from a fridge. The last one I bought was $300 and there’s no place to put an ad. I have no idea why y’all were hooking your appliances up to the internet in the first place, but I’m sorry you’re having a bad time.

if people are buying 1800$ fridges, its on them if they get ads from samsung.

My parents bought a fancy Samsung fridge with a screen 5 years ago. We bought LG. In the first year they had theirs serviced 6 times before replacing it with the same LG fridge we have. Earlier this year right before the extended warranty ran out the compressor on my fridge died. They've not had a single problem with theirs yet.

My brother bought a Samsung TV that was supposed to be better than my LG OLED. In the first year the anti glare coating wore off enough that there are bright spots you can't not see. My LG TV is fine.

Typed on my Samsung phone.

I think that people who would buy a fridge like that deserve to watch ads.

Ads are one thing, but how the fuck hasn't Bixby been killed and buried yet???

Will they come and collect it for a refund if you don't agree with the new TOS?

I'd still take a dumb fridge and magnets at any time of the day.

Samsung is committed to innovation and enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers.

Awesome, you're going to make my life...

As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen that value, we are conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and curated advertisements on certain Samsung Family Hub refrigerator models in the U.S. market.

Worse, because you're just going to squeeze money and time from me

Fuck Samsung

Should be a free fridge then.

if you bought a smart fridge, you get what you deserve

Useless display in refrigerators finally revealed as corporate ploy to install billboard in consumer's kitchens.

is this punishment for expelling hyundai workers?

The other crime here is Bixby.

Let me guess! If you try to use PiHole or some other network Adblocking mechanism, the Fridge will either brick itself OR will fail to start the compressor. Right? It's not like that didn't happen before, when Google Calendar went down. We all know this is going to happen, and Samsung is going to push this wide scale. The extra revenue from ad space is too irresistible to avoid doing the sensible thing.

The smartest any of my Fridges ever became was having a small computer on the front panel to record voice messages, which also doubled as the Water/Ice dispenser function selector, and to have a timer on the dispenser light so it could turn on and off automatically. That was an Amana fridge I had back in 2002, which lasted until 2019. My current fridge has a basic computer inside of it to monitor and control the interior climate, to save energy by recirculating cold air from the freezer into the Fridge, and to beep loudly if there's a problem.

Enhance the product by making it shittier