Samsung confirms it will begin showing you advertisements on refrigerator screen (opens in new tab)

(fortune.com)

21 pointshippich5mo ago12 comments

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I like how they frame it as “meeting customer needs”, as if customers were begging to see ads on their expensive fridge.

CamperBob25mo ago

The customers are the advertisers.

boobsbr5mo ago

I now have ads on HBO Max, Prime Video and Disney+. Netflix also has ads.

Phone apps collect your data and show you ads.

Some smart TVs show you ads, and also collect your data.

Now the fridges.

When will we get ads beamed into our dreams à la Futurama?

soylentcola5mo ago

I always wondered if "Lightspeed Briefs" was a pun on the "FTL" abbreviation that Fruit of the Loom used at the time (no idea if they still do).

ChrisArchitect5mo ago

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291107

metadat5mo ago

Thanks! Macro-expanded:

Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291107 - 12 days ago, 108 comments

bni5mo ago

Never buy anything from Samsung

deafpolygon5mo ago

Well, that's one product I won't be buying.

burnt-resistor5mo ago

Fuck Samsung. Someones needs to hack the firmware and replace it with something useful.

tomkarho5mo ago

Make it run Doom.

lowlevel5mo ago

Samsung doesn't make anything good in the way of appliances anyway... so, pretty easy to avoid this bs.

zaphirplane5mo ago

Aren’t they one of the top screen manufacturers, eg tv

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