I'm guessing none of these idiots will learn their lesson either. The next appliance they buy will still have network connectivity and useless spyware.
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2026
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Chaebol being chaebol. They'll try selling anything with a short lifespan and lots of useless frills just for a little more profit.
If it's so "smart" why did it shut down?? "Dumb" fridges only do one thing, cool food. Make the world dumb again.
Suck. It. Jin-Yang.
If you are so lazy that you buy a smart fridge, you deserve what you get.
What idiot thought it would be a good idea to connect the cooling mechanism to whatever smart bullshit screen is built into it?
This is such a 2026 headline…just wow. There is no crying over spoiled [sic] milk
"Smart" fridge.