Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
I don’t mind smart products, though I’m not sure what problem is solved by a screen on a fridge. That said, I do hate it when these devices need to rely on the cloud to function, and Ads I can’t tolerate–I usually try to block the DNS address for things that like to spy on me or show me ads.
This sort of stuff damages the Samsung as a brand. It makes me unlikely to consider Samsung for other products like TVs.
Whoever bought a smart fridge deserves watching those ads
The only smart feature a fridge needs is a beeper for when the door has been left open or water filter needs changing. It sure as heck doesn’t need WiFi.
But how else will you know you need to make an unnecessary purchase?!
Mine is so “smart” that it doesn’t properly detect that it’s open with a cm or so gap. At least it beeped furiously when it detected that the freezer section had a dangerously high temperature half a day later.
What it actually needs is a little motor to close itself. If it knows I left it open it should be capable to close itself instead of crying like a useless piece of junk.
An expensive motor that breaks, or decides to close on you when you’re looking inside, or…
No, I won’t because I’m not stupid enough to buy an Internet connected ad machine refrigerator.
I wonder if it’ll be like TVs, which are cheap as fuck for a really nice TV, but equipped with garbage like Alexa and Amazon fire.
Right now, you can buy a $200 “smart” TV, or a $1800 “dumb” TV. I wonder if fridges and other appliances will go in that direction.
Are there even any dumb TVs anymore? The current lineup from CES 2025 is LG (OLED), Samsung (OLED), and TCL (MiniLED) which have great image quality options, but I’m fairly sure all are using a “smart” platform.
TCL doesn’t bother with software and uses Google TV. Samsung uses Tizen which is linux with another junk UI, though less painful than Google. LG uses webOS which I’ve heard UI side is better, but its still a junk UI on linux.
Literally the only reason my LG TV is hooked up to the wifi is so I can show my wife stuff from my Android phone. For everything else we have an Apple TV.
I can’t see any good reason to allow a fridge access to the internet.
Use apple cast
my Android phone
Hard to do AirPlay from a Pixel.
Even the $3000 Samsung TVs have ads if you connect them to the Internet. Noone is safe
I mean if it doesn’t make sound I’ll get the cheap “smart” fridge and just cover up the screen, if it’s a high quality fridge besides the screen, no problem.
To be honest, I’d judge people who have fridges with a screen. Completely unnecessary. This problem is easily solved.
People that need to buy the newest, biggest, most expensive shit out of vanity always get judged. Just not the way they’d like.
Until they’re impossible to find without a screen, like dumb TVs are near impossible to find today.
On the plus side, considering the average lifespan of Samsung appliances, you probably won’t have to put up with it for very long.
Much better than my current Samsung fridge where that obnoxious Samsung rep has to come every week to plaster a new ad on the door. At least it won’t leave glue all over the floor.
What?
And this is why I avoid Samsung products entirely. Vote with your wallet.
I avoid “smart” products — especially those with screens — for this reason.
Get ready to buy good quality, inexpensive refrigerators, without tech connectivity. Automatically adding tech to everything, just because it is new and shiny, isn’t always the right way to build your products. It sure fucked up the car industry.
Those will die off soon enough, through forced obsolescence and an inability to compete with ad-subsidised junk that spies on you.
All the terrible touch features they’re adding to cars these days makes me think a brand new car today would go obsolete before a 10 year old used car with 100k miles. New cars are unrepairable because of how complicated they are.
100% agree; the whole Touch Screen Everything UI like those found in Teslas are the absolute worst.
Having to take your eyes off the road to do literally anything to do with the climate system should be made illegal. Bring back tactile switches, FFS!
Only if you buy one.
My understanding is Samsung, at least as an appliance company, had tanked on quality over the last decade or so. I had all Samsung appliances until every one started failing slowly.
Not sure how they hope to survive with shit products AND a poor user experience.
They will cry into all their ad-money.
All the useful idiots wasting their money on this crap are getting exactly what they deserve.
I’ve been hearing about how shitty Samsung appliances are since 2018.
Who is buying these?
Im not buying anything with ads. If I have to buy a new flat screen tv, im making sure it can be used without the internet, and any ads can be removed through network ad blocking or other tricks.
Its never enough ads until every surface has an ad on it. Fuck the entire ad business. Making the world ugly.
Advertising should be illegal.
It should be optional for free at least.
Forced ads should be illegal. It’s quite literally wasting peoples lives and a lot resources.
I’m more than ready. I’m so ready that won’t ever buy a refrigerator with an internet connection in my life
