cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/51856491
Here’s how to opt out.
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https://www.theverge.com/report/806797/samsung-family-hub-smart-fridge-ads-opt-out
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/51856491
Here’s how to opt out.
Archived version: archive.is/…/samsung-family-hub-smart-fridge-ads-…
No they won’t, because I’m not stupid enough to buy a ridiculously overpriced fridge.
Here’s what they look like on my fridge:
I would not buy appliances with ads,
I would not buy them, Sam-I-Am.
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.
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.
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!
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.
I need my refridgerator to be a box.
A box that gets cold inside.
Thats it. Just a cold box.
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.
“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
I mean. Sure. Until they start putting SIM cards in them and using the cellular network.
Can you pull it out and put it in your own device to get free service?
I can’t think of a single thing on a fridge that needs to be smart.
Nothing needs to be, but I do like to monitor door status and temperature for my fridge and deep freezers with home assistant.
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.
To Home Assistant! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.
ads
its the same people that bought the 2k beds, and aws froze and heated up the beds.
Not 2k beds. 2k bed covers. You still needed your own bed.
Every day an open source initiative for applicances makes more sense
can’t wait for the ice dispenser dlc
It’s already a subscription model called a water filter.
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)
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!
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.
I think you can run DOOM on it
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.
But can it run crysis?
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)
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.
And here I am all old-school, just making a list for things.
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).
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.
I opt out by never connecting it to the internet.
I opt out by not spending $2K on a fridge that annoys me by its mere existence.
Literally LOL’d when I saw the ad.
“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.
I’d sooner take a sledge hammer to it
Pi-Hole?
in case someone only wants to use the block without setting up a server (& trusting others) fmhy.net/privacy#dns-adblocking
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 28 minutes ago
I’m opting out by buying a significantly cheaper non-smart fridge. Which luckily is still an option.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 14 minutes ago
This