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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 134 points 12 hours ago (45 children)

Why would your refrigerator have a screen?

Why would you buy such a refrigerator?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 hours ago (6 children)

Why do gas pumps have screens?

[–] Renorc@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Everyone should know this. Share it.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 hours ago

Hero. There's only one gas station I use that has ads and I'll try it there for sure. I deliberately avoid screened pumps.

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 4 points 5 hours ago

Only sometimes. I've seen the mute button be disabled on numerous machines. Worth knowing and trying when the screen is blaring ads at you, but my success rate has been low in muting them.

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