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Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like (www.theverge.com)

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Samsung warned us last month that ads were coming to the giant Android tablets embedded in its Family Hub smart fridges. I've been eyeing mine ever since — and the first ones are about to arrive. Starting November 3rd, the $2,000-plus connected fridges will get a new widget that serves up ads, Shane Higby, head of Home Appliance Business at Samsung Electronics America, confirmed to The Verge.

The ads will be part of a new widget on some of the smart fridges' "Cover screen themes" (like a tablet or smartphone's home screen). The widget, which Samsung shared with me ahead of today's announcement, has four rotating screens. One showing news, one calendar events, one the weather forecast, and one with "curated advertisements."

This widget appears at the bottom of the fridge's screen and rotates every 10 seconds among the four screens. You can swipe to rotate through them faster. Samsung says the widget will only appear on the Weather and Color theme screens, not on the Art or Album ones. A new Daily Board screen also won't have the widget, but it will show an ad in one of the six tiles.

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People really be buying these bigass connected computers for their home and expecting capital to not capitalize? It's like the ONLY thing they do.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Eventually people might learn why they should not just prefer to have, but actually require open systems for all the computers in their lives, even the ones hidden inside of their appliances, instead of buying these locked down, pre-programmed, remote-updated internet-of-shit devices.

If you can't get root and boot access on your device, decide what you're updating it with and when, you don't own it or control it in the first place. You're just letting some shitty company (and maybe anyone at all with the amount of security flaws these devices have) directly into your home and network to decide what you can or can't do with your product (and when and how much it's going to cost), while they take advantage of every opportunity they can think of to spy on you and extract money from you. Any device with microchips in it isn't just an appliance anymore, it's a trojan horse full of gross and creepy salesmen and they're going to be there forever, watching you and figuring out ways to get more of your money.