...which is just a fancy way of saying they don't.

I went shopping for Fridges recently and they were between $750 for the most generic ass basic fridge, and $1500 for a pretty decent one.

So yeah, just like Cybertruck owners, I don't feel sorry for you.

As far as I know, don't all modern cars have the telemetry and computer crap, and you can't opt out unless you buy something old and hope to god it never breaks in some unrepairable, must-scrap-and-buy-new way? The old cars we can use now to escape all the telemetry will eventually break beyond a repairable state and no new cars like that are being produced (again as far as I know), so all that is left is the existing selection with it. And once it gets to that point, not all of us are rich enough or without connections tying us to a local place such that we can say "then just fuck cars, time to move somewhere with really good public transit" to escape car surveillance hell. At some point the consumer is out of choices unless they want to build a car themselves. I get your sentiment while non-surveillance-capitalism alternatives exist and can be bought, but as these alternatives dwindle I'd rather move away from the "stupid fucking consumer lol, just buy smart" mindset.

Besides, I've never been of the opinion that people being victimized should be blamed for it. Yes, I probably should remember to lock my door as a matter of practicality because thieves exist, but if I forget and get robbed one day I hope people would blame the robber for doing that instead of me for failing to do due diligence. Besides, with so many threats in the world and the fact that humanity is fallible, with smart scambaiter types also getting scammed from time to time, I really don't want to turn to a "blame the stupid person who fell for it/bought the surveillance capitalism thing" mindset. Just because I am smart enough in the tech realm to know of the problem and a bit of how to defend myself does not mean everyone else is knowledgeable here, and I'm probably vulnerable in other areas I know less of. You should not have to become knowledgeable of every possible threat in every possible realm and take every possible countermeasure to be deserving of safety or nonviolation.

Hurray for my stupid fridge, may you continue to function and for more fridges like you be created.

No, they do. It's just that most people don't actually care until shit like this becomes the standard and you can't escape it anymore.

The cheap fridges will resist the screen as a feature, but not as a means to advertise. They will put a cheap screen thats the only interface to regulate the temperatures through an app, so they will then put ads on the screen.

Isn't it typically cheap fridges that will resist the screens the longest? Because they market it as premium and it will move down to less premium models. Or are you thinking about brands that mostly sell fridges to restaurants, schools etc?

Soon they will build a smart device mesh so they won't need your WiFi.

There will always be some that won't, it's up to the consumer to not take the cheap fridge with a screen that the manufacturer has subsidized.

The problem is that they will add the screens to more and more fridges. Eventually all the fridges will have them.

Only if you watch the ads for the iFridge027 on your iFridge026

Considering the way the TV industry went, good luck with that.

Boycotts don't actually work; we need consumer protection laws.

Even if for whatever reason I did buy this fridge, why the f would I ever link it to my wifi?

I'll keep my fridge stupid, thanks

With all that ad revenue, can they please focus on making fridges that last more than 4 years?

Fuck Samsung

Insane.

Lol MPAA can get fucked. For years they wanted this when it was about their own profits but now that it is their hand that is being bitten, they cry.

This article is AI slop

Apologies. I thought the C was for Canada. I understand that this is yet again Murica, and not its neighbours.

I think that it is unreasonable not to visit Canada or Mexico because of this.

This is the time to bring out a mask and start vandalizing.

Might be difficult in the UK though, with so much camera's around. I've always wondered how feasible would it be, assuming you get lucky and don't get caught during the act, to make sure that you can't be found by cameras alone.

A good mask, desposable clothes, hat to hide your hair, and make sure to change somewhere with multiple entrances into a larger area without cameras? In this hypothtical scenario, I guess the most difficult thing would be to have a place where to change without it being connectable to you, i.e not a tunnel where they can check people entering and leaving and look for who's only leaving.

It would have to be a pretty large area that's populated and traversed by a lot of people, has as much entrances and exits as possible but also has places where you can discreetly change. I'm guessing something like a park, or a forest. Maybe a train, assuming it doesn't have cameras on board. If it's long distance/lot of stops, enumerating people who get in and out would be extremely tedious, plus it does have a place to discretely change. Bonus points for having a burner phone with you the whole time, that you then leave on the train/throw out at a random stop.

A in-depth enough investigation could probably track you down, but the more entrances and exits/people traveling through, the higher chance an investigation into a minor vandalism would give up. But making it work for some more serious act, where a very in-depth investigation will take place, will probbly be almost impossible. But that's not what I'm interrested in anyway.

I'm sure there are anarchist zines about this kind of thing, it looks like it might be usefull pretty soon.

What the fuck. There were only few reasons why I wanted to maybe someday visit the US (Burning Man and Defcon), but fuck that. I'm glad I don't have to travel there for work, and if I had to, I'd rather find a new job.

I hope employers in the EU will be reasonable and not send their people to this hell-hole, and that a lot of events will consider moving to Europe, especially things like Defcon. I can't imagine how would any abroad attendee of Defcon be willing to go through this.

Each visitor would also be required to submit what CBP calls “High Value Data Elements”. According to the notice:

The high value data fields include:

a. Telephone numbers used in the last five years;

b. Email addresses used in the last ten years;

c. IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos;

d. Family member names (parents, spouse, siblings, children);

e. Family number telephone numbers used in the last five years;

f. Family member dates of birth;

g. Family member places of birth;

h. Family member residencies;

i. Biometrics—face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;

j. Business telephone numbers used in the last five years;

k. Business email addresses used in the last ten years.

Jesus Christ, that's an insane list they're requesting. Get fucked.

Nor any desire to set foot on that continent