"It's for the safety of the consumer." is such a bullshit excuse to strongarm people into a subscription model.

Is it GE? I'll bet you it's GE.

Clicks.

Yep, it's GE.

Great short story called Unauthorized Bread about this bullshit.

Won't be buying one of those fridges.

Luckily I get my water from the tap.

I discovered this when I put a reverse osmosis system in and wanted to bypass the filter. I needed a $50 plastic plug with an RFID tag in it or else the fridge refused to dispense.

Water dispensing is the main cause of refrigerator breakage. No water dispenser, fridge will work for decades.

Yup. My old-ass refrigerator has them.

But the thing is, I already had a Brita pitcher and ice trays. I don't need the fridge to dispense them.

Cheeky thumbnail 😏

Our house came with brand new appliances and the fridge has a filter. Thankfully ours doesn’t stop you from dispensing ice or water when it wants you to change the filter. It just has a red light telling you to change it.

My tap already dispenses water, why would I need a fridge to do that?

Fun fact the black mirror Blu-ray also has DRM

Can't force you to anything, if you weren't told about it before you bought it. Demand a refund and give them a date they get it out of your place by.

Rossmann and his ilk are who we need in Government. It seems so simple. Understands law, fights for the people.

I thought I fooled the fridge makers. I bought a model without filtered water. Sadly, I didn't realize that the ice cubes require a filter. 😔

Weird, I bought a high end GE fridge 2 years ago and it doesn't require drm on the water filter.

Is this the end of water treatment plants?

You know that you can also get water from the sink....

It would be illegal to explain how this is relevant, but it would be impossible to prevent Bitcoin double spending without access to the shared ledger.

I'm happy with my fridge that just fridges stuff.