Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.

From the article:

A software update rolling out to Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerators in the US is putting ads on the fridges for the first time. The “promotions and curated advertisements” are coming despite Samsung insisting to The Verge in April that it had “no plans” to do so

Samsung is calling it a pilot program for now, which — I kid you not — is meant to “strengthen the value” of owning a Samsung smart fridge

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
    19·
    6 days ago

    I currently stand 5-10feet back from the gas pump that trys to force me to listen to garbage ads… never will I buy a fridge that has a tv

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    6 days ago

    I guess someone could be excused before. But anyone who buys one of these disasters from this point forward gets what they deserve. Maybe when it breaks in 6 months they’ll switch to a different brand with no screens.

  • Guidy@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 days ago

    We’re planning on replacing most of our appliances in 2026. Samsung won’t be any of them. And I definitely won’t get anything with a screen.

  • schmorp@slrpnk.net
    6·
    6 days ago

    A not very epic poem about smart appliance FOMO, to be sung to a tune played on the world’s smallest violin

    I’m devastated my fridge is old and does nothing
    but keep my food cold.
    I feel so poor and left out,
    having no access to these value-strengthening promotions and curated advertisements.
    My dumb fridge just
    stands in a corner of the kitchen, not talking to me!
    I feel so alone among my silent appliances.
    Please speak to me washing machine
    say something sweet space heater
    profess your undying love to me dish washer

  • voodooattack@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    Fuck this dystopian timeline. And we’re trapped. Too late to avoid this period of human suffering and too early to leave and colonise another planet.