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The only good reason I can think of for a fridge to be connected to the internet is to alert you to a compressor failure when it happens so you can get the food out of it.
Edit: I should have clarified that I meant consumer fridges, which I install for a living and so my brain defaulted to that. Commercial systems definitely need monitoring of some sort, and network access is the best way to centralize that.
This may be so, but personally, I'd rather loose the $ value in the fridge, once, due to a compressor failure than to have the data of how I interact with it and bloody advertising thrust into my face, over the span of its working life.
A little pain later is worth so much more than 10 years or so of annoyance.
Agreed, the only functionality that should be active if it's connected to the internet is sending an alert of a failure. Sadly, no company that has a way to serve you ads will choose not to use it... 😮💨
Consumers had all the power... that is, until they started voting with their wallet by buying appliances that could connect to the internet (or that had a screen installed on them).
Once manufacturs saw that their bs was selling, we'd lost the battle.