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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.

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[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well fine. No smart refrigerator then.

Btw, you could also just slap a tablet on any fridge.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm more than ready. I'm so ready that won't ever buy a refrigerator with an internet connection in my life

[–] ratten 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All the useful idiots wasting their money on this crap are getting exactly what they deserve.

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[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 16 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Samsung makes shit appliances that are particularly non-repairable anyway.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago

Yeah, there's no way I'm buying an internet connected fridge with a giant screen.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago

Sammobile apparently has 1660 "partners", the fuck?

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

The good news is that it's going to break soon anyway and you'll have to buy another. Maybe try one without a screen on it.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Hahaha. Who would pay so much for a smart fridge. In the words of Gilfoyle, all it needs to do is keep my fucking beer cold.

[–] parpol@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

Well, with ads it will likely become cheaper than dumb fridges, which will lock in more and more customers until the sudden subscription service hits and everyone have to agree and pay up or buy a new fridge altogether. This isn't the first, second nor third time this has happened.

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[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

But, can it play Doom?

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