All the useful idiots wasting their money on this crap are getting exactly what they deserve.
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2025
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I'm more than ready. I'm so ready that won't ever buy a refrigerator with an internet connection in my life
For anyone who knows how, please add it to the consumer rights wiki.
https://consumerrights.wiki/Category:Samsung
Fuck Samsung.
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Who could have possibly seen this coming...
This was always the endgame of smart homes, creating continuous ad revenue from everything you own. It was never about consumer experience for big companies.
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Gross, my fridge got hit with ransomware again and now all the food inside is encrypted. Time to see if my canned backups are any good.
...Where did I put those backups?
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Well fine. No smart refrigerator then.
Btw, you could also just slap a tablet on any fridge.
Who could have seen this coming!?
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I really hope that Steam games don't head down this path over time. Internet-connected refrigerators I'm willing to avoid, but that's not the only vector for this sort of thing.
EDIT: And as has been pointed out on here before, some Internet-connected cars are starting to have updates to show ads on their UIs pushed out. Any time you've already spent the money and are kind of locked in and the manufacturer has Internet connectivity to the device and can update the thing subsequent to purchase, you're kind of in a bad position regarding leverage.
Valve, fortunately, has already codified a ban on advertisement in games sold and on the steam platform itself (The store page is curated by an algorithm fetching popular games or game genres desired by the player rather than advertisers) https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/advertising
Edit: There's an exception for cross promotions and in-world/in-universe assets (giving logos on a race car in a racing game as an example)
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Enshittification, in my kitchen?!
You have to be pretty naive to not have seen this one coming from a mile off. But hey, at least people can see what's in their fridge without having to open the door, what a luxury.
When I used to work at Home Depot, selling appliances, I would absolutely refuse to sell anyone anything from Samsung.
They make absolutely terrible and extremely expensive overpriced appliances which are guaranteed to break within three years.
Show me an ad in my own kitchen and that screen is going to be broken.
I moved to Germany. It's been an experience because the tech status dialed back about 15 years. One area I don't miss is the ever pervasive drive to have screens with ads on every surface.