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.
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What it actually needs is a little motor to close itself. If it knows I left it open it should be capable to close itself instead of crying like a useless piece of junk.
An expensive motor that breaks, or decides to close on you when you're looking inside, or...
No, I won't because I'm not stupid enough to buy an Internet connected ad machine refrigerator.
On the plus side, considering the average lifespan of Samsung appliances, you probably won't have to put up with it for very long.
To be honest, I'd judge people who have fridges with a screen. Completely unnecessary. This problem is easily solved.
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.
And this is why I avoid Samsung products entirely. Vote with your wallet.
I avoid “smart” products — especially those with screens — for this reason.
I wonder how are you posting that comment...
You got me. I’m posting from my 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.
Those will die off soon enough, through forced obsolescence and an inability to compete with ad-subsidised junk that spies on you.
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.
They will cry into all their ad-money.
Only if you buy one.
All the useful idiots wasting their money on this crap are getting exactly what they deserve.
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.
Advertising should be illegal.
It should be optional for free at least.
Forced ads should be illegal. It's quite literally wasting peoples lives and a lot resources.
I'm more than ready. I'm so ready that won't ever buy a refrigerator with an internet connection in my life
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.
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.
it was of course a horrible laggy mess.
So the freezer froze?
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Don't buy dumb smart home devices or you get exactly what you deserve.
Why would your refrigerator have a screen?
Why would you buy such a refrigerator?
So you can see the inside of your fridge while never seeing the inside of your fridge. /s
Why do gas pumps have screens?
Only in banana republic would customer be less valuable than ad revenue
Normal ones, yes, even 3rd world countries:
have counters only (minimalism).
Everyone should know this. Share it.
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.
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.
To display ads.
Especially lately. The screens used to just be for controlling the pump or letting the station show a silent ad or two for products in their convenience store. Or community ads.
NOW THEY BLARE RANDOM ADS AS YOU GAS UP YOUR VEHICLE.
It's bliss after hours when the gas station is about to close and the ads stop. You can pump up in peace. Although when the ads crash the pump, have fun paying for gas.
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