Comment on When a person follows you and watches your every move, it's called stalking. When companies like Meta do it, it's just called collecting user data.

• HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I am in the minority but if i ever had a fridge that’s costing me money like that it would never be a brand I would ever associate with ever again and the current one is being tossed ASAP. I’m also not connecting fridges to my wifi either because why should it be?

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In the future, all Fridges will do it. You’ll have 10 brands to choose from but they’ll all collect your personal data and send it out via built in cell service.

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    • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      the data they collect from scanning the upcs in your fridge alone would be worth millions-- how fast you consume one thing vs another, how far away you live from the store (derived from data shared taken from your grocery “rewards/membership” card), what kinds of meals you’re making with the ingredients, and the size of those meals— all information they will exploit to make even more money from you

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    • riot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Even if all fridges in the future don’t do it, or you somehow manage to disable it it, I’m sure that’ll make your premium go up too. It’ll be advertised as a cost-saving measure - “Give us access to this data, and you premium will be less! (Until we see you buying something outside of your plan, in which case, you’ll have to pay more)”

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  • glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ring doorbells can connect to the Internet through each other. Imagine a fridge made by amazon that uses the same network. Now imagine amazon giving discounts to apartments making it more attractive to cheapskate landlords. I can imagine insurance companies paying amazon surprisingly small sums to make this happen.

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• Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  or worse

  They’ll send the vegan police after you?

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