Come on it’s the 21st century where is your refrigerator electromagnet? Looks like it is very needed.
Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.
Submitted 17 hours ago by validiarim@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Widdershins@lemmy.world 32 minutes ago
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
If you Dont LIKE THIS you’re a TERRORIST!
-Trump’s NPSM-7 which Classifies ANTI CAPITALISM as Terrorism! FREEDOM!
claim_arguably@lemdro.id 1 hour ago
Fuck this
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 53 minutes ago
Nothing a good roll of duct tape can’t solve.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 37 minutes ago
its like it requires internet conneciton, or some kind to make the fridge work.
PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml 56 minutes ago
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.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Advertising must be the worst human invention ever.
zbyte64@awful.systems 5 hours ago
It often feels like violence.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
All thanks to John Advertising.
We know because that asshole told everyone about it and his services.
403@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Why on earth would anyone buy this garbage? The only advanced feature I’d like would be a crushed ice dispenser.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
This is me.
I just cant imagine wanting a fridge to do anything other than keeping things cold.
Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
really sucks, but like did we not expect this to happen?
can@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
we did
tal@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
There were still many flat surfaces in the world that did not yet have advertisements displayed on them.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Is this something Ray Bradbury wrote?
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Now they have curved and flexible displays, so is any surface safe?
cloudless@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Why would you expect this to happen?
markz@suppo.fi 17 hours ago
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.
azimir@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
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.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
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.
tyler@programming.dev 15 hours ago
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.
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
They scammed people for years with their phones.
can@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
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.
brunchyvirus@fedia.io 16 hours ago
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
scarabic@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Yeah I actually never expected to have an LCD billboard up inside my home.
DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
At least they don’t lock the fridge until you watch an ad.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
If that happens, then this should be upgraded to Majorly Infuriating.
viking@infosec.pub 3 hours ago
…yet
irish_link@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I can’t tell if I should upvote this or downvote this.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
This was always the goal when they started adding screens. Screens should always be viewed as ad delivery mechanisms especially if internet connected. That goes triple for devices that absolutely don’t need a screen. Like a fucking fridge. They will slow boil the process at first. But they’ll do it.
NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It’s kinda coincidental to have all three conglomerates in that picture: Sony producing that TV show, with advertisement paid by Apple TV to Samsung.
viking@infosec.pub 3 hours ago
And probably some Google analytics tracker in the background as well.
nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Wouldn’t be surprised if you popped it open to disconnect the screen, the cooler would stop working.
meejle@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
How long till stuff starts working on mobile game logic?
Next free fridge unlock:
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⏩ Watch an ad to unlock earlyTollana1234567@lemmy.today 33 minutes ago
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.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Drink a verification can to continue
cloudless@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Don’t forget the premium subscription and NFT.
flamiera@kbin.melroy.org 17 hours ago
$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 waterIampossiblyatwork@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Delete this post.
FatVegan@leminal.space 14 hours ago
Your fridge is cooling for 13 more hours watch two ads now to get 4 more hours.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Ew. I’d build an ice box or live out of coolers.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
To that I say, why in the hell would you buy a smart fridge in the first place? That’s on you for buying something that stupid.
freebee@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
it will become like many appliances… You want a dumb tv? Possible, but it will cost you more than a smart one. You want a dumb fridge? Fine, but soon it will cost you more than a ‘smart’ one you can’t even turn on without making an account somewhere and registering your email and phone
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Same thing with screen ads in new Jeeps. You bought a Jeep, you deserve pain.
FatVegan@leminal.space 14 hours ago
My dad owned a bunch of jeeps from the 90’s to 2005 ish. I never understood how anyone could buy more than one of these pieces of shit.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Then connect to the internet? But I think saw on YouTube that they can brick your fridge if you do anything to stop getting ads.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
I remember when fridges with screens were first becoming a thing, and one way they tried to sell them was the convenience of being able to leave notes, shopping lists, photos, etc… for other members of the family. And even back then, before the advertising apocalypse, I remember thinking, what in the actual fuck makes this 1000 dollar feature any more useful than a 20 dollar magnetic white board and a dry erase marker?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
And the ultimate outcome of that was, at one point Google enacted some kind of API change which necessitated Samsung to push out an update to remain compatible, otherwise all of your Google enabled features such as the calendar syncing, email, etc. would stop working. Samsung claimed to be developing a patch for this, and ultimately pushed out an update to… only some of their models. For the others, their response was literally just, “We recommend you buy a newer refrigerator.”
But since that was going on for ten years ago now, information about it on the Internet is a trifle difficult to find because the search results have largely been overshadowed by Samsung’s more recent smart fridge fuckup. Grand.
Never buy a Samsung appliance.
Tronn4@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Enshitifiction. It makes the line go up.
yannic@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Speaking of enshitification, who wants to bet that the calendar app doesn’t support CalDAV?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
I actually think a multipurpose digital screen could be quite useful and fun on a refrigerator, not needed or necessary at all but I think in a less enshittified timeline an open source version of this, possibly even an e-ink screen, could actually be quite wonderful. It would make far more sense as a whiteboard time object that you attach to your refrigerator though and obviously this entire concept is predatory on so many levels it is mindboggingly… but the idea of having a sort of communal digital screen on a refrigerator isn’t a bad idea itself I don’t think as hard as it is to imagine a reality where an appliance like this was designed in good faith.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
100%. It’s a matter of where does the technology stop being about “useful for us” and starts being “useful for them”.
A digital whiteboard would be a good feature (not ‘necessary’, but cool). It’s when they decide it needs to be connected to the internet that it becomes “is this technology serving us…or serving them” that’s the problem.
I’m not anti-tech at all. Quite the opposite. But I remember the mid-2000s when all of this tech was getting off the ground and it was being innovated and invented for OUR benefit, not for the corporations. That’s when this kind of stuff was fun.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
But you can buy a tablet and use magnets… Cheaper and upgrable. Like there’s no reason to physically combine something that lasts but a fraction of a quality fridges life.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Because you must consooooooooom. Don’t think, just spend. See shiny “useful” feature, open wallet.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
It’s depressing to notice just how much pop culture from teh 80s onward was trying to warn us about this coming shittorm. It’s like, as soon as Reaganomics came on the scene, there were those who immediately saw it for what it was and started fighting. (Punk Rock, Literature, Movies, etc…) and it wasn’t enough. No one paid any attention and we are now where we are because as a culture we got sucked into chasing more shiny shit at the expense of our own good.
macarthur_park@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
FYI there is a setting to disable ads. Doesn’t excuse them for introducing ads in the first place, but at least it’s a solvable problem (for now).
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
If we’re here to solve it, another solution is not to connect it to your network.
I don’t know why someone would want the internet on their fridge.
HonorableScythe@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
What else am I going to use to play Roblox when mom takes away my iPad, computer, tv, Switch, phone, Apple Watch, PlayStation, Xbox, Occulus, and car infotainment system? The dishwasher?
Jhex@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I still don’t understand any benefit from having a screen on my fridge… but now I hate them, thanks Samsung
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Ads. That’s the benefit. That’s the only possible one.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I just find it astonishing that Samsung still makes appliances… Considering how awful they are at doing it, and how much money they have to lose for the dozen+ warranty repair visits they inevitably have before ultimately refunding the device.
Maybe thats why they have screens, So their appliance division can finally turn profit by advertising you until their device dies
LePoisson@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I think their appliances are a lot like the rest of their tech. If you get a good one it’s solid for years and years, but God help you if you get a shitty one because their customer service is garbage.
Also idk what crack or other drug their engineer was on that designed the ice box in my freezer but it literally is made in a way that constantly causes problems with ice build up and not being able to dispense ice because of it.
But I will say all the rest of my Samsung appliances and even the fridge aside from that ice box bullshit have been going strong.
I think they also have crap quality control, it reminds me a lot of anything Alienware I’ve owned. Still using a mouse from 15 years ago but also had a keyboard from them die right around the one year mark and it was impossible to get any help from their support.
While I’m ranting huge shout out to turtle beach who’s customer support and care was exceptional. My dog chewed through my headset wires and they shipped me a new one no cost.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Do they? Or do they just have someone else do all the design and manufacture like every other brand these days.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I don’t like anything on the fridge door including water and ice dispensers. Love the water dispensers inside the fridge
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Remember this when they try to self is the idea of putting screens in the sky
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
I would go on a killing spree if this happened I already have an irrational hatred of advertisements outside irl. Often think about somehow hacking the digital ones and placing my own messages.
Jhex@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I’m reading a book where they mention “Ambience” systems… basically nanobots floating in the air everywhere so you can just ask something and literally hear voices with the answer or suddenly see images floating in front of your face.
Imagine that tech in this stupid timeline…
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Man I’m thirsty
“have a coke.”
Becomes enemy of the state
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Book title and author?
freebee@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
why does a fridge need a computer and a screen?
Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
The burning question on the hearts and minds of everyone who isn’t a complete dolt since these things came out
maniclucky@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I did a little “is shit rotting in your fridge?, also inventory” thing for senior design. It was a cursed project for a variety of reasons, but even what we did was a stretch in terms of utility.
If only we had known that the girl that came up with the idea was actively detrimental to everything she was even adjacent to
SirHery@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
So they can show you ads. Obviously 😌
Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 4 hours ago
‘need’? It doesn’t.
Possible useful applications? Reporting on anything relevant to the fridge (temps., power consumption, water level, maintenance reminders, usage tracking etc…)
Other than that I can’t think of anything other than 'bragging rights.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I keep racking my brain on this one. Unless it’s doing advanced things like automatically tracking fridge inventory and helping build shopping lists, there’s literally no point. Analog controls work fine, even for fancier fridges with integrated ice makers.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Imagine your name really is “Carol”, then you wake up one day and see this shit
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
It’d be really funny if your name was Carol
SystemL@literature.cafe 4 hours ago
I mean what do you expect…?
danc4498@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
So ironic considering the advertising material. It feels like this show is about technology replacing humans.
cloudless@piefed.social 17 hours ago
I would return it.
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Anyone who bought into this crap kind of deserves it at this point.
I keep my appliances dumb AF because I have half a chance at repairing them should something break.
There are also fewer points of failure.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
I would be so pissed if I bought one of these. I’d probably smash the screen in rage.
I knew this would happen though.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
The absolute irony. Yeah, this advert is trying to be a reference to what’s happening in the series, as this is exactly what the main character is experiencing.
But it creeped put and distressed the character into a mental breakdown. Yes, let’s emulate that as a tongue-in-cheek fridge advertisement.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Will they shows ads for basic LG fridges?
witty_username@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
Imo this is not so much infuriating as it is just straight up ridiculous.
Don’t bloody buy smart appliances. If you happen to have one, switch off its connectivity. If you insist on local connectivity, isolate it from the web. If you insist on using the internet connectivity of your home appliance then you deserve every bit of the nonsense that is thrown at youlefixxx@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
after seeing pluribus that ad has a whole new meaning
percent@infosec.pub 18 minutes ago
Well yeah, it’s a fridge with a spacious screen and an Internet connection in the 2020s. Of course they’d capitalize on all that advertising real-estate. And of course they’d wait until after people have had them for a while. They’re unsurprisingly shameless.
I’d be curious to know what kind of data it’s collecting to optimize those ads.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 minutes ago
Using some of the wifi connection tricks companies have, it can probably associate the device with all the devices your family has and the corresponding data