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Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator (www.sammobile.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I'm not against my refrigerator having a screen that I can control

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (12 children)

    But why have a screen at all?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Shopping list, digital post it notes, etc.

    People have been sticking important things into fridge doors since there are fridges.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    You carry a phone that supports these features in your pocket. Fridges don’t need screens imho

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But then you need to use cloud services to sync with your family/roommates/etc. Not everyone lives alone.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So how are you gonna access the shopping list on the fridge when you are in the store (without using cloud services)? Taking a screenshot of sticky notes on the fridge works as good as taking a screenshot of the fridge screen. So in both cloud connected and not clod connected scenarios, the fridge screen is not needed and functions as a gimmick.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    For just $15.99/month/user, you can store up to one thousand bytes of text in our super unsecured cloud service, and access it remotely with our Galaxy Pro Platinum Gold Fold Unfold Refold Defold Sync Edition!

    *unavailable with any other devices, only available on our latest halo product, when we release the Galaxy PPGFURDSE 2026 in 3 months your device will become unavailable to sync with the fridge. Only available in 2, 3, and 5 year subscriptions, but we will kill the service after 17 months, no refunds.

    Samsung. Because fuck you~.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Blah blah blah, I don't like the form factor so it's unneeded. You people are insufferable.

    Guess what, it is easier to look directly forward on an always on screen that's going to have a common display like a family calendar of events for that day while I'm preparing my family for the day. I don't have to find and unlock my phone, I don't have to wash my hands and open up a calendar app. It's right there, front and center, where it needs to be for the task.

    Not everyone has their reflection burned into the screen holding them all day. Some people actually leave them in other rooms!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It there was any hope for these being useful that would have integrated with the mobile experience the same way CarPlay did.

    These are it a tv screen on a fridge with a channel that is for the fridge, these are all proprietary junk that it's the antithesis for a smart home because they control it not the home owner.

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