Samsung confirms it will begin showing you advertisements on refrigerator screen

21 points by hippich 230 days ago | 12 comments

dabinat 229 days ago |

I like how they frame it as “meeting customer needs”, as if customers were begging to see ads on their expensive fridge.

CamperBob2 229 days ago | |

The customers are the advertisers.

boobsbr 229 days ago |

I now have ads on HBO Max, Prime Video and Disney+. Netflix also has ads.

Phone apps collect your data and show you ads.

Some smart TVs show you ads, and also collect your data.

Now the fridges.

When will we get ads beamed into our dreams à la Futurama?

soylentcola 229 days ago | |

I always wondered if "Lightspeed Briefs" was a pun on the "FTL" abbreviation that Fruit of the Loom used at the time (no idea if they still do).

ChrisArchitect 229 days ago |

metadat 229 days ago | |

Thanks! Macro-expanded:

Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291107 - 12 days ago, 108 comments

bni 229 days ago |

Never buy anything from Samsung

deafpolygon 229 days ago |

Well, that's one product I won't be buying.

burnt-resistor 229 days ago |

Fuck Samsung. Someones needs to hack the firmware and replace it with something useful.

tomkarho 229 days ago | |

Make it run Doom.

lowlevel 229 days ago |

Samsung doesn't make anything good in the way of appliances anyway... so, pretty easy to avoid this bs.

zaphirplane 229 days ago | |

Aren’t they one of the top screen manufacturers, eg tv