Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like

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• boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨28⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  And here’s how to opt out.

  I’m opting out by buying a significantly cheaper non-smart fridge. Which luckily is still an option.

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  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    This

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• Damarus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No they won’t, because I’m not stupid enough to buy a ridiculously overpriced fridge.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Here’s what they look like on my fridge:

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  I would not buy appliances with ads,
  I would not buy them, Sam-I-Am.

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s the main issue here. This fridge didn’t show ads when people bought it.
    So buying things that don’t show ads isn’t enough. You need to only buy things that don’t get updates.

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, that just makes this so sinister.

      What I mean is that my fridge doesn’t have a screen. So if Panasonic decided to show me ads on a fridge where the most complicated feature is the ice maker, that would be a neat trick.

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• original_reader@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Guess what they look like on my 250 Dollar dumb fridge.

  I can even keep my food chilled with it. Plus I can freeze stuff. Even has a light when I open the door. Super practical. You guys should come see it!

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• j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Opt out is idiotic. Don’t buy this shit! You to not own it. What fuckwit dumbass rents a fridge someone else controls for $2k. I bet it has a camera inside to sell grocers a list of what to mark up for your custom pricing nonsense because you bought a billboard that screams I’m a gullible moron with more money than sense.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I need my refridgerator to be a box.

    A box that gets cold inside.

    Thats it. Just a cold box.

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I just wish I could buy a cold box, a hot box, a spinny-arm water box and a spinny-drum water box without computer chips in them at all.

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• wondrous_strange@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Smart” fridges are the dumbest shit ever; given that, pi hole or some ad blocking DNS? Block access to Samsung servers?

  Don’t understand people who are willing to let all that data pass through 3rd party servers

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  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean. Sure. Until they start putting SIM cards in them and using the cellular network.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Can you pull it out and put it in your own device to get free service?

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• wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can’t think of a single thing on a fridge that needs to be smart.

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  • AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nothing needs to be, but I do like to monitor door status and temperature for my fridge and deep freezers with home assistant.

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    • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Have these functions actually proved useful? I think I’ve had maybe one fridge failure in my entire lifetime that resulted in a complete loss of contents.

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    • paequ2@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To Home Assistant! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ads

    its the same people that bought the 2k beds, and aws froze and heated up the beds.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Not 2k beds. 2k bed covers. You still needed your own bed.

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• atmorous@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Every day an open source initiative for applicances makes more sense

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• toxicbubble@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  can’t wait for the ice dispenser dlc

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    It’s already a subscription model called a water filter.

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  • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Since it’s a Samsung ice dispenser, that’s a recurring charge. (Service calls.)

    (Seriously though, I’ll never buy another Samsung appliance after my experience with that fridge’s ice dispenser)

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No that’s what the front of my fridge will never look like no matter my net worth. I will never buy a smart refrigerator, certainly not this model from Samsung!

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would like to know why anyone would go out and buy a smart fridge. What amazing feature does it have that you cannot be without? I seriously don’t get it.

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  • Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think you can run DOOM on it

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think you can run DOOM on it

      Running Doom on a Linux device with Wayland is not really that much effort once you have a way to execute 3rd party binaries.

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    • Mondoshawan@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But can it run crysis?

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  • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One thing I heard of that would be handy is cameras in the fridge so while out shopping you can check if you already have stuff or how much is left (depending on the container)

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Does that work though because I can’t imagine you get a very good angle on things unless there’s multiple cameras and you get a composite image one for each shelf.

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    • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And here I am all old-school, just making a list for things.

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  • scrion@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I could see it if it was a screen I get to control, akin to a smart mirror. Fridge door would be a pretty good surface since I’m guaranteed to look at it a couple of times each day.

    Other than that, push notifications if the door is open? That’s about the max when it comes to usefulness I can imagine. Is that a problem that requires a connected device? No, probably not.

    However, depending on the model range, it becomes difficult to even get a model that doesn’t have the “smart” features. No one can force you to connect the device though (yet).

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    • tenacious_mucus@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yea, i pretty mich agree with all your points. Made me think of a situation with my neighbor a few months ago- one of their kids left the fridge door slightly open when they left. I think for a weekend trip or something, just enough that everything had spoiled. Lots of meat, too, so they had a blast with that. Some sort of push notification might have helped or prevented that, but otherwise…nah. Dont need nor want any of that always connected, smart, online, wtf ever mess.

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• besselj@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I opt out by never connecting it to the internet.

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  • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I opt out by not spending $2K on a fridge that annoys me by its mere existence.

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• overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Literally LOL’d when I saw the ad.

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• BigTrout75@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “fridge, I need a 12 pack of beer and two large pizzas”. Uber eats shows up 45 minutes later. We’re all doomed! Ha ha ha.

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• ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d sooner take a sledge hammer to it

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pi-Hole?

  pi-hole.net

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  • Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    in case someone only wants to use the block without setting up a server (& trusting others) fmhy.net/privacy#dns-adblocking

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