really sucks, but like did we not expect this to happen?
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2025
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There were still many flat surfaces in the world that did not yet have advertisements displayed on them.
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Wouldn't be surprised if you popped it open to disconnect the screen, the cooler would stop working.
How long till stuff starts working on mobile game logic?
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Don't forget the premium subscription and NFT.
The sub gives you tokens which is used up every time you open. Use the ice maker? That's 2 tokens
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$1.99 to freshen your fruits and vegetables $4.99 to freeze your meats $0.99 to make ice cubes $1.99 to cool your drinks $11.99 to make water
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To that I say, why in the hell would you buy a smart fridge in the first place? That's on you for buying something that stupid.
it will become like many appliances... You want a dumb tv? Possible, but it will cost you more than a smart one. You want a dumb fridge? Fine, but soon it will cost you more than a 'smart' one you can't even turn on without making an account somewhere and registering your email and phone
Same thing with screen ads in new Jeeps. You bought a Jeep, you deserve pain.
My dad owned a bunch of jeeps from the 90's to 2005 ish. I never understood how anyone could buy more than one of these pieces of shit.
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It'd be really funny if your name was Carol
There was a reddit legal advice post recently with that premise. Poster's sister was a schizophrenic named Carol, who checked herself into an inpatient mental facility, after seeing this ad on a smart fridge, and thinking her treatment was failing and she was slipping into another episode.
Brother was wondering if they had grounds to sue over treatment costs.
I sincerely hope they win the case and receive a good compensation.
I get the vibe that they wanted to use Karen, but realized alienating and insulting their users just for complaining about the ads was a bit too far. (Apple and Samsung can just rot in a ditch)
It's an ad for a television show in which the main character's name is Carol
Didn't know.
It still does (at least to me) look like they formatted it to low-key insult the people complaining about the advent of ads on appliances.
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I would return it.
I never understood why anyone would buy one in the first place. I like home automation where it makes sense (like having some of my bedroom lights and my coffee maker tied to my phone alarm in the morning) but why would anyone ever tie their fridge to the internet?
In theory it would be cool to track inventory automatically for restocking, and you could have an app where owner can pay things to the fridge for the rest of the family to see.
In practice nobody would use that app, whiteboards are more fun, and it would never be able to tell what’s in containers of leftovers.
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...To the manufacturer. The retailer's not going to take it back, and even if you did manage to bully them into taking it somehow that's still allowing the retailer to shield the manufacturer (i.e. Samsung) from the consequences of their actions. And consequences are what Samsung needs to see over this.
I would be so pissed if I bought one of these. I’d probably smash the screen in rage.
I knew this would happen though.
I'd look for a way to unplug the screen or something first. But then I'd probably find out they used some "clever" design to make me not be able to do that, and THEN I'd smash the screen.
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why does a fridge need a computer and a screen?
The burning question on the hearts and minds of everyone who isn't a complete dolt since these things came out
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So they can show you ads. Obviously 😌
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The absolute irony. Yeah, this advert is trying to be a reference to what's happening in the series, as this is exactly what the main character is experiencing.
But it creeped out and distressed the character into a mental breakdown. Yes, let's emulate that as a tongue-in-cheek fridge advertisement.
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Anyone who bought into this crap kind of deserves it at this point.
I keep my appliances dumb AF because I have half a chance at repairing them should something break.
There are also fewer points of failure.
no. nobody deserves to be scammed.
yes they should have known better and did not, but they did not deserve it.
Much like the law should allow people to cancel any subscription created online, online, the law should mandate clear times when and where advertisement is allowed with opt out options.
If Samsung wants to advertise to me on a product, that should have to pay me $10/month to send those adverts.
They use that $10/mo to offset the $10/mo they want to charge you to continue using your fridge. Appliances As A Service or something.
Yeah, but some people didn't opt into it. I've worked on a lot of new construction in my state and they buy these appliances for every new apartment complex they build. I know people could choose a different apartment, but most people don't have any other option and saying "no" to a decent apartment because of a refrigerator isn't a luxury people can afford.
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The way things are going …if you want a new fridge at an affordable price the ones with ads will be your only choice. This is peak late stage capitalism with no consumer protections or anti monopoly practices in place
Imo this is not so much infuriating as it is just straight up ridiculous.
Don't bloody buy smart appliances. If you happen to have one, switch off its connectivity. If you insist on local connectivity, isolate it from the web. If you insist on using the internet connectivity of your home appliance then you deserve every bit of the nonsense that is thrown at you
If you bought it without ads and it started showing ads, that would be a breach of contract.
In purchasing this appliance you agree to our TOS that says we can change our TOS arbitrarily. Also you can't sue us because you've also agreed to arbitration
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I would return it
I remember when fridges with screens were first becoming a thing, and one way they tried to sell them was the convenience of being able to leave notes, shopping lists, photos, etc.... for other members of the family. And even back then, before the advertising apocalypse, I remember thinking, what in the actual fuck makes this 1000 dollar feature any more useful than a 20 dollar magnetic white board and a dry erase marker?
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Just wait until buggy malware worms its way into these things and the screen just shows kernel panics in an infinite loop.
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No, thanks. I'll stick with my long-since-paid-for, 25-year-old Maytag. That is, as long as it works.
I recall reading in Consumer Reports many years ago that most refrigerators were discarded not because they stopped working, but because of cosmetic damage. Broken plastic door shelves, dents, rust, out of style, etc. The compressors were still fine.
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To be more accurate, the ads only appear in specific cases where idiots were dumb enough to buy a fridge with a screen.
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