The things Samsung has to resort to, to be able to afford ram for its phones after Samsung cut Samsung off from it’s supply.
Technology could be so awesome, and this is what they do.
I love technology. This is complete policy failure. Big Tech must be annihilated.
That’s why I support Free Software movement
The underlying problem is capitalism, not technology per se. It’s the “Big” part.
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The first part of your sentence, before the comma, applies to just about everything in the world today, not just technology. Peace.
Samsung smart fridge disable ads
Turn off ads smart fridge
Jailbreak samsung smart fridge
Open source smart fridge software
Fridges for sale near me
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.
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
I imagine it goes like this:
- Fridge gather nearby SSIDs
- Samsung partners with Google/Meta
- Cross reference SSIDs with the ones being collected from Android devices/Meta apps
- Get advertising IDs from devices likely in this house
- Profit
Or, and much much cheaper:
- To continue configuring this fridge please install this app via play/apple.
This 100%. Also cross-reference IP addresses associated with the fridge’s IP to get Google/Meta advertising IDs on the whole family.
There’s a non-zero chance that when Grandma comes over, she gets ads just for her as long as she’s there.
Ugh. Everything in this thread is totally feasible and probably reasonably accurate.
I miss the old days when I could love tech, and got excited about new tech. It has gotten so sleazy.
Time to re-read Cory Doctorow’s “Unauthorized Bread”. I thought it was satire and way over the top, but reality keeps catching up.
If you Dont LIKE THIS you’re a TERRORIST!
-Trump’s NPSM-7 which Classifies ANTI CAPITALISM as Terrorism! FREEDOM!
Advertising must be the worst human invention ever.
All thanks to John Advertising.
We know because that asshole told everyone about it and his services.
It often feels like violence.
Why on earth would anyone buy this garbage? The only advanced feature I’d like would be a crushed ice dispenser.
This is me.
I just cant imagine wanting a fridge to do anything other than keeping things cold.
My guess is to “digitalize” the sticky notes that people put on fridges. Its ment to be a billboard for the famially unit to itself! Advertizers getting inbetween and editing your note to selfs is gross!
really sucks, but like did we not expect this to happen?
we did
There were still many flat surfaces in the world that did not yet have advertisements displayed on them.
Is this something Ray Bradbury wrote?
Maybe OC
Now they have curved and flexible displays, so is any surface safe?
Yeah I actually never expected to have an LCD billboard up inside my home.
Why would you expect this to happen?
Because they did it on every other item they sell with a screen and internet connection.
It’s nitnjustbthatbthey show ads, it’s that they track you and show you ads based on that data.
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.
Edit: l’ll just say I don’t think the question was so dumb it should downvoted to hell.
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.
It’s a Samsung.
Even if it weren’t a samsung, i would always expect a screen to show ads. That’s all they want to do, show ads everywhere as much as they can.
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.
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.
They scammed people for years with their phones.
they tried hard to keep up with apple for years, i would imagine they would try something like this eventually.
by never breaking?
Google sideloading and “fucking ads on a fridge.” Don’t thank me.
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.
Edit: to be clear I never meant it as rude, just a little sarcastic.
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
Rossmann has a take on this (and several on DRM and similar).
Fuck this
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.
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.
And probably some Google analytics tracker in the background as well.
At least they don’t lock the fridge until you watch an ad.
…yet
I can’t tell if I should upvote this or downvote this.
…yes
…yet.
If that happens, then this should be upgraded to Majorly Infuriating.
Nothin a good crowbar can’t solve.
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?
Enshitifiction. It makes the line go up.
Speaking of enshitification, who wants to bet that the calendar app doesn’t support an open standard like CalDAV?
I’ll not take that bet. Would you like to bet it’s not in the pre-sale spec sheet, so you only find out after you buy?
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.
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 nice. It would make far more sense as a whiteboard type object that you attach to your refrigerator though and obviously this entire concept is predatory on so many levels it is mindboggling… 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.
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.
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.
Because you must consooooooooom. Don’t think, just spend. See shiny “useful” feature, open wallet.
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.
But how else will we learn about the evils of Goldstein?
…somewhere between 1984 and 2014, peak dystopian satire became peak aspirational lifestyle: is it any wonder that balls-out cartoon fascism is celebrated by half the planet a decade later?..
