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Refrigerator ads are finally here!
Submitted 6 hours ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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pyre@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
logicbomb@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Imagine that. You not only paid for the refrigerator, but also the electricity and the internet access. And it uses all of that stuff to display ads to you. You’re literally paying for every ad it shows you.
thurstylark@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
That’s exactly the thing that turned me off cable. I’m not interested in paying for a service that’s going to pipe ads into my home. OTA TV, fine, I’m not paying for that. When I can pay for services that don’t show me ads, why would I pay for one that does?
solrize@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Joke’s on you: product placement in movies. The ads are already there.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
When I can pay for services that don’t show me ads, why would I pay for one that does?
Don’t worry, they are gradually taking that option away too.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Yeah, but you end up paying extra to not see ads, so… it’s the same thing either way.
caboose2006@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
If you paid me just 5 bucks a month I’d let them install that fridge in my house.
heavy@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Now you know to think twice before buying Samsung anything
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Samsung recently released UI 8 for Android, which had the astounding forward-thinking and innovative move of removing the ability to silence your phone by hitting the volume down button
idk what phone I’m gonna buy next, but that’s the last straw with Samsung for me. I’m already sick of them changing features on the phone to make them worse, like how in order to do a partial screenshot (a feature I used to use a lot) you now need to click the button and wait a few seconds for the “AI” to think about what portion of the screen to select. you cannot skip this waiting period. you cannot disable this (that I have found). you cannot ‘undo’ when you draw a box around a section that includes text and it tries to helpfully extract the text for you instead of just fucking taking a screenshot of the highlighted portion of the screen
fuck Samsung
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
If you’re that fed up, may as well buy an iPhone and root/flash the thing to a custom OS, or another Samsung, and do the same thing. Those brands have consistently had the best hardware, so if you’re gonna just nuke the software anyway, which is your best option, may as well get the hardware that you want.
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
It’s a smart fridge; they didn’t even think once when they bought it
titanicx@lemmy.zip 30 minutes ago
I don’t know there are a lot of features on a smart fridge that are pretty cool a lot of things that actually can come in handy that I really appreciate it when I considered purchasing one. I’m glad that I didn’t make the purchase before they came out with this idiotic bullshit.
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Samsung appliances used to be durable.
I had a Samsung washing machine for about two decades. We deciced to replace it with another Samsung, it already has a big crack in the plastic after a year of use and the top is all scratched just by dragging the clothes out.
oppy1984@lemdro.id 1 hour ago
Speed Queen, my parents bought one in 1992 and it lasted over 20 years with almost no issues. When it finally started needing regular maintenance mom replaced it and got another Speed Queen, ten years later not a single issue yet.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 30 minutes ago
Washing machines from 10 years ago are not comparable to the washing machines now and their build quality. Even the speed Queen ones from then to now are far different
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
That thing would already have a broken cracked screen if that was mine and it started displaying ads.
What a fucking dystopia
expatriado@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
You probably wouldn’t make the initial mistake of buying a fridge with a fixed tabled
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 5 hours ago
I still haven’t understood why people bought those. What it does a screen in my fucking fridge do any good for me?
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Wow. Not even a tasteful design, just turning the fridge into a full fledged highway billboard. Disgusting.
jonne@infosec.pub 6 hours ago
At least it’s static. They could’ve done a constant animation for maximal annoyance while you’re trying to focus on cutting onions.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
I’m sure it’s in the pipeline, with sound. Gonna have our appliances acting like gas pumps do.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 5 hours ago
Have you used one of those gas pumps with a screen recently? That’s definitely where it’s going.
Zier@fedia.io 1 hour ago
Thank god fridges have ads now. I have been so unhappy not knowing what to purchase every day of my life. Now my fridge can tell me all the things I should purchase to fill up my home and go so deep into debt that I will be homeless.
Thanks Samsung, I was too stupid to do this without you.
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/sThedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Tragically, some marketing dipshits and more than a few executives had this exact same thoughts about us without the /s.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
I’m ready to move to a commune. But like… not a hippie Luddite commune that shirks all technology. Just one that isn’t fucking insane about the tech in their lives. basically one that rewinds a bit back towards maybe the early to mid 2000s. Where we had a of the tech in a still mostly uncorrupted form.
Its like “the village” for people who are utterly exhausted by corporate greed. Someone get M. Night Shammalamma or whatever on the phone.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
Start watching
On what, the fucking fridge?
InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Kill it with fire.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Disconnect it from ty Internet for starters. Why else would a company want to sell you a fridge with a screen?
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 5 hours ago
What can you even do on an un-networked fridge screen? Play bejeweled while contemplating suicide?
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
A hear ago I found out y TV didn’t even have a “Forget this network” button. You had to
- Make a new WiFi network
- Connect it to that
- Turn off new WiFi network
In order to disconnect it. I went down this road because every time I watched a Blu RAY, it would pop-up an ad saying “HERE ARE OTHER WAYS YOU COULD WATCH THIS MOVIE YOU OBVIOUSLY DON’T NEED!”
scytale@piefed.zip 6 hours ago
The best part about this is it’s an ad for Pluribus, where without spoiling anything, a message like that would absolutely work in the show.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
It is a perfectly placed ad.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Honestly, it’d work in the 5th element, or judge dredd, total recall, Cyberpunk 2077, the outer worlds, etc.
RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I never connect smart shit to my internet but I’m sure eventually they won’t function until you do.
haulyard@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Bought a new stove recently that wouldn’t alllow the air fry mode to be used unless it was connected to WiFi.
graycube@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Is it AI powered too?
bytesonbike@discuss.online 5 hours ago
Oh how truly dystopian - maybe next year.
pennomi@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I’m sorry Dave, I can’t dispense any more calories for you today.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
“if you go for a 2 mile run, I’ll give you 2 carrots, you fat fuck. Take the watch!”
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
What is the purpose of a screen on a fridge? Is this common (without the ads)?
If not, how would you not notice when you buy it. You’d need to be utterly oblivious.
Maybe they just have unnecessarily contrived fridges where this person is.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Usually like the weather, todo lists, shopping lists, calendar… Like daily routine planning. Some have music or photos.
This all coming from a non fancy fridge owner.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 5 hours ago
Isn’t that why we have smartphones and computers? Personally I’ve never contemplated going to the kitchen to do such things.
snooggums@piefed.world 5 hours ago
So all the stuff on my phone but on a giant appliance that doesn't move.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You can roll your own with Magic Mirror
foodandart@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
A piece of cardboard and some tape will take care of that.
bytesonbike@discuss.online 5 hours ago
If by cardboard you mean gasoline, and tape you mean fire… I agree!
foodandart@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Well, I mean the rest of the fridge is okay, no? More to the point, what would someone do if they didn’t have the internet and bought the fridge…
Just because something is “smart” is no reason to let it have access to the internet.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Need to be able to jailbreak these and put your own stuff on it.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 1 hour ago
Like Doom.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Never wanted one of these… now I want a fridge that runs Doom.
OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
I already decided to stop buying Samsung TVs when they started showing ads in the menus.
I imagine other consumers will start to make similar choices with their appliances.
Whatever exec thought this was a good idea probably already got a huge bonus and will move on to ruin another company’s products before the impact to their bottom line is felt.
pennomi@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The number one feature on my list when buying a TV (or any appliance really) is “dumb”.
Maybe someone should start an appliance brand called DUM and capitalize on this. Plain, no frills, extreme durability appliances. I’d buy!
OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 10 minutes ago
Any non-smart TVs you would recommend? And what would be your preferred streaming device?
I think a good balance would be a TV that only supports casting either with Chromecast or AirPlay or something similar. The last Chromecast I bought couldn’t even keep up with 4k streaming but 4k streaming works fine on my smart TV.
nervousnerd@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
But you can’t make that choice if every brand does it. And then they can make it not function properly without internet access. They will force the internet of shit on us.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I fail to see a why a fridge would need a touchscreen in the first place. Like whats the reasoning?
ScrollerBall@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev 5 hours ago
Ngl, that appearing on your fridge fits the show so well though. Points to Apple for abusing Samsung’s choice to put ads on a fucking fridge
Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 hours ago
One more step closer to the old Twilight Zone episodes where the machines come alive.
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
“Please drink verification can to access the fridge”
“THE VERIFICATION CAN IS IN THE FRIDGE YOU DUMBASS AI”
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Or Futurama where ads are beamed directly into your dreams at night.
Gork@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
I feel the sudden urge to buy Lightspeed® Brand briefs.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 hours ago
Yeah, that's terrible. We're already at Minority Reports levels, only still without a great AR device, only the phone itself.
solrize@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
I saw a daily Home Depot special for “smart toilets” and my first thought was “you mean I can’t poop if AWS is down?!”.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Hello, yes, can I get some cold?
We have $499 cold (ad supported) and $1599 cold (ad free).
fullsquare@awful.systems 52 minutes ago
achoo
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Why would anyone spend the money to have this in the first place? It’s absolutely laughable.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 hours ago
But no, someone thought it’d be cool to be able to surf the web on the fridge. Well, here you are.
fullsquare@awful.systems 49 minutes ago
There’s a slight chance that we’ll see a
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in the future
Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
If they do tgat I will mod it.
pyre@lemmy.world 11 minutes ago
i think eventually we’re gonna have to deal with the reality that audio/video advertising needs to be outlawed. keep it in print if necessary.