So this reinforcers my policy of not buying Samsung. They really do just retroactively add ads to every product with a screen.
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I do not understand people. Why did you need a fridge with a display in the first place?
I'm finally sure my fridge predates the internet it came with the house and cost £50 I have zero interest in replacing it what does having a display give me?
Frankly if you're buying these fridges you're part of the problem, of course they're going to put advertisements on it, what else are they going to put on it. You all damn well know you don't use the display anyway.
It will break much fast which is great for the economy
Just in this thread to say Fuck Samsung
Whoever bought a smart fridge deserves watching those ads
I mean, nobody REALLY deserves it. Driving consumerism seems misanthropic. Marketing and Sales people feel like a drain on society. Anyone is welcome to change my opinion. Sell me this pen.
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.
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.
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.
Is that existed it would either close after 10 seconds and try and cut you in half, what would leave the door open for 5 minutes before doing anything.
An expensive motor that breaks, or decides to close on you when you're looking inside, or...
I guess appliance engineers are just stupid and bad at their jobs.
The people spending money on parts definitely are.
But how else will you know you need to make an unnecessary purchase?!
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.
I remember reading that hotel TVs are an option. They also have an ad platform, but one intended for the hotel owner to send ads from, not some 3rd party. Not exactly dumb but also not as bad as regular TVs.
And of course a beamer or PC screen connected to some cheap small form factor PC is always an option, with Kodi or similar on it, i haven't owned a TV in like 10 years, just using a small linux pc with beamer, and a tv tuner card in the past (nowadays my ISP offers all public channels on IPTV)
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.
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Even the $3000 Samsung TVs have ads if you connect them to the Internet. Noone is safe
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On the plus side, considering the average lifespan of Samsung appliances, you probably won't have to put up with it for very long.
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.
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And this is why I avoid Samsung products entirely. Vote with your wallet.
I avoid “smart” products — especially those with screens — for this reason.
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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?
Only if you buy one.
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.
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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.
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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.
Why would your refrigerator have a screen?
Why would you buy such a refrigerator?
So you can see the inside of your fridge while never seeing the inside of your fridge. /s
Well I suppose that would be sort of a useful feature especially if you could access the camera remotely while shopping but if you think about it that camera angle is impossible.
Just open the fucking door.
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