Why would your refrigerator have a screen?
Why would you buy such a refrigerator?
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2025
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I recall the hype was to keep track of groceries or some such gimmick. I feel it to be unnecessary tech. How convenient that it shows ads. In any case, do not buy a Samsung appliance. They are total shite and will break down on you. Fridges, washing machines, dishwashers. All garbage. The televisions are fine.
the hype was to keep track of groceries
Most of my groceries are in the pantry not the fridge. This tech was always for people who have a kitchen that is for show and never used.
All electronics are garbage now it's almost like they want you to buy a new one every year.
I'm not a huge fan of my Samsun monitor either actually. There's a lot of stuff in there that I don't want or use, and most of what is in there feels pretty half-assed. Will definitely be trying another brand when it comes to replace it.
Agreed. Bought a washer/dryer set and the washer literally shit out in a year, with repairs costing as much as the purchase. Fuck them.
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To keep track of groceries? Just I don't know, LOOK inside the fridge. Oh the cabinets and drawers don't have screens, just slap a few of them on there to keep track of that shit too! Why stop at the fridge?
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I'm not against my refrigerator having a screen that I can control
But why have a screen at all?
Shopping list, digital post it notes, etc.
People have been sticking important things into fridge doors since there are fridges.
It there was any hope for these being useful that would have integrated with the mobile experience the same way CarPlay did.
These are it a tv screen on a fridge with a channel that is for the fridge, these are all proprietary junk that it's the antithesis for a smart home because they control it not the home owner.
Because not everything important is digital.
Magnetic whiteboard
You carry a phone that supports these features in your pocket. Fridges don’t need screens imho
Blah blah blah, I don't like the form factor so it's unneeded. You people are insufferable.
Guess what, it is easier to look directly forward on an always on screen that's going to have a common display like a family calendar of events for that day while I'm preparing my family for the day. I don't have to find and unlock my phone, I don't have to wash my hands and open up a calendar app. It's right there, front and center, where it needs to be for the task.
Not everyone has their reflection burned into the screen holding them all day. Some people actually leave them in other rooms!
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But then you need to use cloud services to sync with your family/roommates/etc. Not everyone lives alone.
So how are you gonna access the shopping list on the fridge when you are in the store (without using cloud services)? Taking a screenshot of sticky notes on the fridge works as good as taking a screenshot of the fridge screen. So in both cloud connected and not clod connected scenarios, the fridge screen is not needed and functions as a gimmick.
For just $15.99/month/user, you can store up to one thousand bytes of text in our super unsecured cloud service, and access it remotely with our Galaxy Pro Platinum Gold Fold Unfold Refold Defold Sync Edition!
*unavailable with any other devices, only available on our latest halo product, when we release the Galaxy PPGFURDSE 2026 in 3 months your device will become unavailable to sync with the fridge. Only available in 2, 3, and 5 year subscriptions, but we will kill the service after 17 months, no refunds.
Samsung. Because fuck you~.
Tablet is more flexible.
I would love a monitor on my fridge (it'd be better than most of the dusty old shit on mine right now. ) But I would want to have complete control of the hardware attached to that screen
I hope a DIY mod community springs up to help people take back the machines they own.
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Well fine. No smart refrigerator then.
Btw, you could also just slap a tablet on any fridge.
nope.
For anyone who knows how, please add it to the consumer rights wiki.
https://consumerrights.wiki/Category:Samsung
Fuck Samsung.
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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.
When I used to work at Home Depot, selling appliances, I would absolutely refuse to sell anyone anything from Samsung.
They make absolutely terrible and extremely expensive overpriced appliances which are guaranteed to break within three years.
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?
Wait a second... you're into something here. What if a fridge could lock and unlock sections by Face ID? It could make sure my kids aren't drinking my beer! Or eating my lunch for tomorrow. Or half a birthday cake. What if I could require my kids to grab an apple with a soda?
That would be kinda neat if I had money I couldn't think of a better use for.
...drinking my beer! Or eating my lunch for tomorrow. Or half a birthday cake.
Could've just said "eating my lunch", it's obviously a beer and half of a birthday cake.
Someone hacked my fridge and gave it a virus. I ate the food and got gastroenteritis.
The food encryption was unnecessary, I already got DDOS'd when my wife and kids got there first and ate all the cake Before I got home from work.
The FBI called to help, maybe they can sort things out for you too. Thought they'd be busy with other stuff right now but I guess they need these Apple gift cards to upgrade my security...
Who could have possibly seen this coming...
This it’s why there is nothing “smart” in my house.
I do have a smart tv that’s not allowed access to the internet, and that’s because they’re all like that now.
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Sammobile apparently has 1660 "partners", the fuck?
Who could have seen this coming!?
It's like none of you ever have seen a small TV on the counter 🤣.
Jesus christ the elitist nerd schick is high in here. So many angry nerds about wanting to and a calendar in the kitchen.
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.
Valve, fortunately, has already codified a ban on advertisement in games sold and on the steam platform itself (The store page is curated by an algorithm fetching popular games or game genres desired by the player rather than advertisers) https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/advertising
Edit: There's an exception for cross promotions and in-world/in-universe assets (giving logos on a race car in a racing game as an example)
Ah, thanks! Well, that's one lone ray of light.
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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.
Samsung makes shit appliances that are particularly non-repairable anyway.
Yeah, there's no way I'm buying an internet connected fridge with a giant screen.