Technology

Why would your refrigerator have a screen?

Why would you buy such a refrigerator?

For anyone who knows how, please add it to the consumer rights wiki.

https://consumerrights.wiki/Category:Samsung

Fuck Samsung.

Only if you buy one.

The only smart feature a fridge needs is a beeper for when the door has been left open or water filter needs changing. It sure as heck doesn't need WiFi.

I used to work at a popular electrical retailer in the UK, and Samsung had come to our offices with some of their latest appliances, including a fridge freezer with a screen like this. They were trying to demonstrate the feature where you could look inside your fridge so you didn't need to open the door, amongst other things, but it was of course a horrible laggy mess. I told the rep that nobody is going to use this after the first time and it's just easier to open the door and look inside. You could tell he thought it was shit too but couldn't come out and say it, but his smirk said it all.

In classic fashion they're doing it in a way where you can choose to not have them by not using particular display options, so that they can say with a straight face that they're not forcing ads on you. Then once this bullshit is normalized and into everyone's homes, making it non-optional on all screens is a much smaller leap in comparison.

Who could have possibly seen this coming...

No, I won't because I'm not stupid enough to buy an Internet connected ad machine refrigerator.

Get ready to buy good quality, inexpensive refrigerators, without tech connectivity. Automatically adding tech to everything, just because it is new and shiny, isn't always the right way to build your products. It sure fucked up the car industry.

Gross, my fridge got hit with ransomware again and now all the food inside is encrypted. Time to see if my canned backups are any good.

...Where did I put those backups?

And this is why I avoid Samsung products entirely. Vote with your wallet.

Im not buying anything with ads. If I have to buy a new flat screen tv, im making sure it can be used without the internet, and any ads can be removed through network ad blocking or other tricks.

Its never enough ads until every surface has an ad on it. Fuck the entire ad business. Making the world ugly.

On the plus side, considering the average lifespan of Samsung appliances, you probably won't have to put up with it for very long.

Who could have seen this coming!?

To enhance our service and offer additional content to our users, advertisements will be displayed on the Cover Screen for the Weather, Color, and Daily Board themes.

I really hope that Steam games don't head down this path over time. Internet-connected refrigerators I'm willing to avoid, but that's not the only vector for this sort of thing.

EDIT: And as has been pointed out on here before, some Internet-connected cars are starting to have updates to show ads on their UIs pushed out. Any time you've already spent the money and are kind of locked in and the manufacturer has Internet connectivity to the device and can update the thing subsequent to purchase, you're kind of in a bad position regarding leverage.

Show me an ad in my own kitchen and that screen is going to be broken.

I moved to Germany. It's been an experience because the tech status dialed back about 15 years. One area I don't miss is the ever pervasive drive to have screens with ads on every surface.

Well fine. No smart refrigerator then.

Btw, you could also just slap a tablet on any fridge.

I'm more than ready. I'm so ready that won't ever buy a refrigerator with an internet connection in my life

All the useful idiots wasting their money on this crap are getting exactly what they deserve.

Samsung makes shit appliances that are particularly non-repairable anyway.

Enshittification, in my kitchen?!

You have to be pretty naive to not have seen this one coming from a mile off. But hey, at least people can see what's in their fridge without having to open the door, what a luxury.

My understanding is Samsung, at least as an appliance company, had tanked on quality over the last decade or so. I had all Samsung appliances until every one started failing slowly.

Not sure how they hope to survive with shit products AND a poor user experience.

Yeah, there's no way I'm buying an internet connected fridge with a giant screen.

Much better than my current Samsung fridge where that obnoxious Samsung rep has to come every week to plaster a new ad on the door. At least it won't leave glue all over the floor.

To be honest, I'd judge people who have fridges with a screen. Completely unnecessary. This problem is easily solved.

Whoever bought a smart fridge deserves watching those ads

Sammobile apparently has 1660 "partners", the fuck?