The things Samsung has to resort to, to be able to afford ram for its phones after Samsung cut Samsung off from it’s supply.
Yes, and I am tired of seeing posts about smart fridge ads. Let the dumb people that bought a fridge with a TOC and internet connection see the fucking ads.
The only part of a samsung appliance designed to work reliably.
I would return it.
I never understood why anyone would buy one in the first place. I like home automation where it makes sense (like having some of my bedroom lights and my coffee maker tied to my phone alarm in the morning) but why would anyone ever tie their fridge to the internet?
In theory it would be cool to track inventory automatically for restocking, and you could have an app where owner can pay things to the fridge for the rest of the family to see.
In practice nobody would use that app, whiteboards are more fun, and it would never be able to tell what’s in containers of leftovers.
I remember back when YouTube just started showing ads. I knew they had ads for a few months, but i have never seen one. One night i was watching something on YouTube with my roommate, and an ad showed up. It was about a barcode scanner. They showed why you need a barcode scanner. They kept showing the uses of the barcode scanner. Put a barcode on your garbage bin, so you can scan it and scan what you threw away, so you know. We never skipped it and the ad just kept going. It was super weird, and it reminds me of a Tim Heidecker sketch, where you wait until they run out of ideas for barcode scanner uses, but they never did. Not for a second have i thought about buying one while watching this 45 min commercial, and i think people are delusional when they think they track their groceries with their smart fridge like that.
Unless they are like turbo autistic, then more power to them.
I only like home automation in the sense of “light goes on if something moves” because that works offline.
I’m definitely with you on that. I won’t buy any smart devices that require internet connections these days. And when looking to automate things, I’m much more likely to be buying a dumb device and a smart plug, rather than a smart device. That way I can still manually use the device if and when the automation side fails somewhere along the line.
I never understood why anyone would buy one in the first place.
Because fucking idiots buy anything with a screen, over anything with a slightly smaller screen.
I might put some zigbee door sensors on my fridge so I can get an alert when it’s left open. My 3yo has learned to open the freezer and while it does make a noise, so do a lot of things in my house so I might not notice straight away. Maybe an internal temperature sensor as well? Ok, now you’ve got me thinking, imma turn my fridge into a T1000 but at least it won’t try and sell me anything.
…To the manufacturer. The retailer’s not going to take it back, and even if you did manage to bully them into taking it somehow that’s still allowing the retailer to shield the manufacturer (i.e. Samsung) from the consequences of their actions. And consequences are what Samsung needs to see over this.
It’d be really funny if your name was Carol
Item 11. 🫠
There was a reddit legal advice post recently with that premise. Poster’s sister was a schizophrenic named Carol, who checked herself into an inpatient mental facility, after seeing this ad on a smart fridge, and thinking her treatment was failing and she was slipping into another episode.
Brother was wondering if they had grounds to sue over treatment costs.
I sincerely hope they win the case and receive a good compensation.
I’d be willing to bet that it’s fake.
Why? Carol doesn’t sound like a strange name and I know people with schizophrenia, if that happened to them they would surely be, at best, problematic.
The whole thing has a stink to it. Obviously I can’t be 100% certain, but whenever a story like that on reddit sounds a little too perfect, it’s probably made up.
Having more typos in the title than in the post is a hint.
It’s also just exactly the sort of thing that people will run away with on the internet. It’s hitting a hot button topic about something that people started seeing in memes a couple weeks ago.
Plus it’s too smooth. If the intention was to relay an event that actually happened, there’d be some kind of rough edge to it, something unexpected. But if the intention was to expand on that meme in an easily digestible way, this is what you’d get.
It’s not the most obviously fake post I’ve seen on reddit, and it’s possible I’m wrong. But like I said, I’d be willing bet on it.
comments just said the ad is legal and click link to file a complaint :(
I get the vibe that they wanted to use Karen, but realized alienating and insulting their users just for complaining about the ads was a bit too far. (Apple and Samsung can just rot in a ditch)
It’s an ad for a television show in which the main character’s name is Carol
Didn’t know.
It still does (at least to me) look like they formatted it to low-key insult the people complaining about the advent of ads on appliances.
“we’re sorry if we upset you, Carol” is an unsettling line used to show premise at the beginning of the show.
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The underlying problem is capitalism, not technology per se. It’s the “Big” part.
That’s why I support Free Software movement
Wouldn’t be surprised if you popped it open to disconnect the screen, the cooler would stop working.
Ew. I’d build an ice box or live out of coolers.
How long till stuff starts working on mobile game logic?
Next free fridge door unlock:
02:59:58🌟 Unlimited* unlocks £19.99
⏩ Watch an ad to unlock early$1.99 to freshen your fruits and vegetables $4.99 to freeze your meats $0.99 to make ice cubes $1.99 to cool your drinks $11.99 to make water
$11.99 to make water
If you mean the euphemism for urinating, some people would consider that quite the bargain!
Don’t forget the premium subscription and NFT.
The sub gives you tokens which is used up every time you open. Use the ice maker? That’s 2 tokens
1L/3$ of water from the fridge. ice will cost you another 1L/3$
Earn tokens by dressing suggestively and dancing for men watching.
how about this, you only get 100 closing/opening of the fridge door a month. the freezer will cost you extra to open and close. it will start charging an "overstuff fee, if the vent/ fridge gets clogged with food.
Your fridge is cooling for 13 more hours watch two ads now to get 4 more hours.
Drink a verification can to continue
To access the verification can in your fridge, you could order another 6 pack of verification cans on sale at
$partner© at$current_price + $arbitrary_markup$current_price
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Rossmann has a take on this (and several on DRM and similar).
“Sorry we upset you”? What did it pick up on for it to say that?
It’s an ad for the tv show Pluribus. It’s basically a quote from the show.
Time to re-read Cory Doctorow’s “Unauthorized Bread”. I thought it was satire and way over the top, but reality keeps catching up.
that’s what you get for buying assmung. they’ve shown time and time again that they’ll do ANYTHING for an extra buck.
really sucks, but like did we not expect this to happen?
Why would you expect this to happen?
They scammed people for years with their phones.
by never breaking?
Google sideloading and “fucking ads on a fridge.” Don’t thank me.
It’s a Samsung.
Even if it weren’t a samsung, i would always expect a screen to show ads. That’s all they want to do, show ads everywhere as much as they can.
Because they did it on every other item they sell with a screen and internet connection.
It’s nitnjustbthatbthey show ads, it’s that they track you and show you ads based on that data.
Because Samsung has done this to literally every one of their other products, even ones without screens, and only apps, like Samsung SmartThings and their washers and dryers.
What else would the screen be for? Even if there was another valid reason, why wouldn’t they put ads on it? It’s easy profit or unused real estate in their eyes.
We’ve been paying attention?
Or to put it more nicely: no one finds this side of the fediverse without feeling at least a little burned by corporations.
Edit: to be clear I never meant it as rude, just a little sarcastic.
It’s an internet connected appliance with a screen, made by samsung. If you follow the right kinds of news, that combination should send shivers down your spine.
Because we’ve seen 30 years of the Web? Because streets used to be (and some sill are) nothing but a place to put up billboards and ads? Because corporations are led by psychopaths and they care absolutely nothing about your well-being or personal health in your home?
OF COURSE if they can put an ad in your kitchen they’ll by all means put an ad in your kitchen. It’s literally the goal of giving out brochures and pamphlets of ads: to make you take the ads into your home. Why are there brand names on everything? It’s advertising all the way down. Giving them an Internet-connecting screen they control in your kitchen is just asking for ads to be displayed in your private space.
They make fridges, which typically sit in a room until it decides to die. Shareholders got pissy the enormous bill for ecs doesn’t have the correct permissions
There were still many flat surfaces in the world that did not yet have advertisements displayed on them.
Now they have curved and flexible displays, so is any surface safe?
Is this something Ray Bradbury wrote?
If it is I want what it’s from, he’s like one of my top favorite authors
Maybe OC
we did
Yeah I actually never expected to have an LCD billboard up inside my home.
Samsung smart fridge disable ads
Turn off ads smart fridge
Jailbreak samsung smart fridge
Open source smart fridge software
Fridges for sale near me
If you bought it without ads and it started showing ads, that would be a breach of contract.
They probably get around this from some clause in the terms and conditions… Yep… Terms and conditions for a fridge.
you didn’t sign.
You don’t own the software on your $2000 fridge, read the EULA.
In purchasing this appliance you agree to our TOS that says we can change our TOS arbitrarily. Also you can’t sue us because you’ve also agreed to arbitration
Good thing that’s not legal in most parts of the world.
But it is, because it covers the software, which people buy, but do not own. Worldwide.
It isn’t.
In the EU for example a ToS can not violate your consumer rights even if you accept to waive those rights.
People need to start using technology to improve their life and society. Stop using Windows, Google, Apple, download an adblocker, and don’t buy into tech consumerism like “smart fridges.” All I would want to know in a fridge that would be “smart” is like the temperature? and I wouldn’t sacrifice my time or attention by buying something which forces ads.
