The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge

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• Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I’m never buying a “smart” appliance for my home if I can help it.

  None of these need this shit. Give me basic ass buttons. I just need my fridge to be cold, make ice, and spit out water. That’s as smart as I want.

  None of these things need a wifi connection.

  This is the old man hill I will die on.

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• SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I once asked why anybody would want a smart fridge. Most people didn’t seem to know. The most common answer was that it could act as a focal point for a busy family for keeping track of things like appointments.

  So, like a blackboard/whiteboard, cork board, or even a normal fridge, some paper, and magnets.

  I’m no Luddite. I’ve got smart lamps so i can change the lighting in my living room & bedroom without getting up. And I’m looking into heating so i can have my heating come on when i leave work, rather than at a specific time. That saves effort and money.

  But i just see no reason whatsoever for anybody to have a smart fridge.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨28⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Do you leave work at different times each day and week that you don’t know about until you are at work?

    Unless you do, a regular programmable thermostat would be fine.

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I would very much like a tablet on the wall, like a digital cork board.

    Building it into the fridge with what I assume are zero options about the actual software involved ain’t it though.

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  • vodka@feddit.org ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    The one smart feature I could see being nice is inventory tracking.

    There’s some new regulation incoming in the EU where they’re doing QR codes on products with the price and also expiry date. A fridge that scans my milk carton as I put it in and then also knows the expiry date would be neat.

    I don’t see this as something I could ever need, but for old people or people with various potential medical issues? Could have its use.

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    • sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      no I hate, and I mean hate smart speakers and all generative ai.

      I would 100% be up for a fridge that keeps track of its contents’ expiry dates via qr and could display warnings when things are going off. I hate wasting food, especially animal products (I already feel guilty enough) so if my fridge said the smoked salmon had 3 days left I’d be into that. now, it retaining my data and sharing it with anyone would be a complete dealbreaker so

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• ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lol. As a software engineer, give me the non-smart version of every appliance, home feature, and television. It’s why I went with a projector over a TV.

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Twitter post that reads "Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize.

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    • ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Classic!

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  • ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Unfortunately lots of affordable projectors are also “smart” these days, running some kind of Android TV

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  • Catpuccino@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Which projector do you use?

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  • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Car, computer, printer, stove etc…

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The crazy thing is that most people don’t care. They will calmly close all the popup ads, obediently sit through YT ads and happily click on sponsored links on reddit. I know one guy who will close and re-open YT app to skip an add. Sometimes he has to do it 10 times in a row before the ad skips but he still thinks it’s justifies using YT app. People are weird.

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  • rem26_art@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My parents bought an Echo Show that they pretty much just ignore nowadays, except to set a timer or tell them the weather every once in a while. All it does all day is sit there and show ads for random stuff. It makes a terrible clock because its too busy showing ads half the time to actually show you the time in a font you can read from across the room. I know you can ask it to tell you the time, but thats so much slower than just looking at a normal clock

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Introducing… the Echo Watch. Never be without your echo devices. Ever. We will murder you if you try to leave us. Also prime costs more now and you need an additional subscription.

      Amazon. Because fuck you~.

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  • fonix232@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I feel incredibly split on ads.

    On one hand the incessant need to market things can be actually positive, offsetting service expenses, allowing things to be cheaper. Streaming is a perfect example of this, as people don't seem to realise just how expensive it is to maintain the infrastructure for it compared to traditional cable infrastructure, not to mention keeping the apps maintained and bugfixed etc., and then we haven't even talked about things like content licencing fees, residuals, and so on. Residuals alone mean that a single user can stream enough in just one month to "spend" their whole annual subscription fee on a single actor's residuals (this is technically unlikely, as one would need to stream a singular TV show or movie 24/7 for 30 days, but still possible).

    And obviously people want to pay less. The least possible, that is. Netflix at $5.99 was a steal. Disrupting cable, globally. But that price was also only possible because of various venture capitalists investing heavily in Netflix, which allowed them to pay for the service mostly from that money, and keep prices low to acquire more users. The recent hikes (all the way up to what, $20?) are the result of venture capital drying up, as Netflix went from a market-shaker startup to revenue generating machine. Which is the point of capitalism, isn't it? Take an ide and make profit/revenue off it.

    So how do you offset these increases? By involving a third party who's willing to pay you, in return for inserting their service into yours, essentially providing your userbase to them. This would mostly be... Advertisers. Marketing.

    The problem is that advertising is a cutthroat business, with intense (and incredibly dumb) KPIs to fulfill. For which they need targeting, for which they need data. And this constant crusade for absolutely pinpointed ads that result in the most sales is what's making it such a disgusting business. It's not enough to shove ads in your face, those ads HAVE to be perfectly tailored to you, and for that, every smidge of information will be utilised against you.

    And this is where I'm torn. On one hand, taking these fuckers' money to make services we do want, more affordable, is great. On the other hand, them wanting to know literally everything about us, and weaponising it against us, is fucking disgusting.

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    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      They are not showing ads for fun. They are showing them to sell stuff. People save $5 on Netflix and then spend $1000 on stupid shit they saw in the ads. Paying more for content without ads lets you escape the consumerist mindset and save money long term. Of course majority of people don’t want that. They are hooked on quick dopamine from buying another toy on Amazon and ads help them find new shit to buy. Other people simply can’t afford to avoid ads and are constantly brainwashed by then into buying one brand over another. Yes, I guess they do get cheap content in exchange but I still find it sad. The entire industry could die tomorrow and we would loose nothing of value.

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And then scroll shit loads of ads on insta

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• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Well, you kinda deserve it when you buy such a thing and also live in a country that allows customer-abuse to the fullest extent of the law. AKA “land of the free (corpos)”.

  Ads on a fridge lol. I haven’t seen an ad in my home for 30yrs.

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• YourMomsTrashman@lemmy.world ⁨52⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I only know about this thing because louis rossman made a video on it and it’s just… Do you really go to your fridge to watch movies or listen to music? Do you really need cameras on the inside of your fridge? It’s so weird

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• FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Start watching”, like anyone would wanna watch a series on their fridge, lol

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Right? That’s what my Samsung smartwatch is for

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fridge is not mine, source: reddit.com/…/apparently_my_samsung_fridge_has_ads…

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• greenbit@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A fridge lifespan is measured in tens of years? That tablet on the door is deprecated in something like 5. Make it make sense (and I don’t mean the capitalist sense of see ads and buy a new fridge everytime the tablet is done for)

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  • cubism_pitta@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Modern fridges last less than 7 years.

    I like smart devices and IoT but I hate that for normal people this has been diluted down to cameras and screens on everything with no consideration about privacy or boundaries.

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  • ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Yes screens on fridges are stupid but… The display will definitely last more than 5 years. I’d even go so far as to say that it will last longer than the compressor of the fridge. Where do people get the idea that displays fail very easily?

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• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Gotta appreciate the choice of ad, though.

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As long as you’re not Carol and taking antipsychotics

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    • michaelalf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      As someone who takes antipsychotics, I hope Carol is taking hers.

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• twinnie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I have a Samsung smart TV and apart from suggesting I watch stuff on their own Samsung channel thing I don’t think it shows me any adverts. Maybe it’s because I’m not in the US?

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  • Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca ⁨28⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Yeah I have a smart LG tv and I turned that crap off even. I got sick of ads for shows on various apps showing up when it’s waiting for an input. Now it just shows me the apps I have installed and my various hdmi inputs, it’s nice.

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