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Source: Reddit post— Private front-end.
Samsung Statement to Android Authority:
Samsung is committed to innovation and enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers. As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen that value, we are conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and curated advertisements on certain Samsung Family Hub refrigerator models in the U.S. market.
As a part of this pilot program, Family Hub refrigerators in the U.S. will receive an over-the-network (OTN) software update with Terms of Service (T&C) and Privacy Notice (PN). Advertising will appear on certain Family Hub refrigerator Cover Screens. The Cover Screen appears when a Family Hub screen is idle. Ad design format may change depending on Family Hub personalization options for the Cover Screen, and advertising will not appear when Cover Screen displays Art Mode or picture albums.
Advertisements can be dismissed on the Cover Screens where ads are shown, meaning that specific ads will not appear again during the campaign period.
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Will they come and collect it for a refund if you don’t agree with the new TOS?
Probably just break the smart features remotely
If only. Would not be surprised to break core functionality.
Probably right. It is samsung after all. They would rather you have e-waste than not be able to serve you ads and steal your data.
Another reason to never buy their crap. Not like id buy anything from them ever lol
Next model will come with a latch that won’t unlock the fridge door until you’ve watched a 30 second ad or are subscribed to SnackPass+ for 29.99$ a month.
Drink verification can to continue.
when you buy an over-engineered appliance, if i feel like spending extra $$$ for a fridge, i’d rather go for quality steel panels and compressor, not an screen with wifi
Make me a nuclear blastproof fridge. Wtf do I need a screen for? What does the wifi do for me? Does it tell me if I am out of eggs? I fucking thought not.
Back in the 50s and 60s fridges got cold. The racks were made out of metal so they lasted forever. We could build fridges like this, but we choose not to.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Or just the average sense of impending doom?
Somewhere in between. At least enough to hide inside if a missile hits my house.
Pretty sure it can, but idk how good it is.
How does it know though? If I just put a carton of eggs in there probably not. If the special egg holder is empty maybe. But I could still have eggs while the holder is empty and the fridge would be none the wiser.
But I don’t actually know how it knows the number of eggs so I might be wrong.
It knows because there are cameras inside the fridge and it can recognize the items you put inside and remove, and has logic built around all of these observations.
It’s not perfect but I’m surprised how often it’s accurate, especially in a household that doesn’t give any shits whatsoever about refrigerator organization.
Oh I see. That’s nice. I still don’t need the function though. Give me more space or a better buuld for the premium this feature costs.
I could also live without it, myself. There are some very nice conveniences associated with the overall ‘family hub’ suite of functionality, but it’s all bells and whistles and not truly necessary of course. But the partner and our spawn appreciate it and they’re happy, and that’s good enough for me
It knows because there are cameras inside the fridge and it can recognize the items you put inside and remove, and has logic built around all of these observations.
society is getting dumber.
I mean, I probably can’t disagree with your sentiment in a general sense, I’m just not sure how this refrigerator nonsense is contributing?
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I’d be for this if it resulted in a high quality fridge
Love my dumb fridge. No screens, no water dispenser. I own a pitcher and a facuet. Don’t need to change filters every six months or check the weather on my fridge. I never want a screen on my fridge.
I think that people who would buy a fridge like that deserve to watch ads.
They probably enjoy it too, sick fucks
I see a bright future for “low tech” tech companies soon.
"Here’s our new fridge.
- What does it does?
- It cools your food.
- And?
- That’s it."
I’ve wanted to have the capital to start a company like that for a while now, but with one more selling point: repairability and promises of backwards compatibility of some degree. So the fridge not only cools your food, but you can replace the compressor yourself at home, and of a future model uses a different one, it will have the same screw placement and size for coils so you can fix/upgrade it. The washer/dryer not only wash/dry clothes, but the barrel and motor are easily replaceable, etc. Basically the framework laptop of appliances.
I doubt they bother with backwards compatibility, but Miele has longer parts availability than pretty much anyone else. They’re also not publicly traded.
The low-tech appliances in my cheap apartment work pretty great. Just modern enough not to waste a ton of water, but still have knobs and rattle the floors.
As it should be
Similar to the only white packaging and black text marketing from the xkcd https://xkcd.com/993/
Wonderful! I’ll take two.
I used to never want a fridge with any sort of icemaker or water dispenser. The place I moved into came with a fridge that has an icemaker in the freezer and a water dispenser in the fridge. The appliance is approaching 18 years old. There are some modern luxuries that just work so long as they aren’t over complicated.
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You could add a printed ad with adhesive tape to the front door of your fridge to have a similar experience like all those “smart” things…
In the past, the typical example for a “smart device” was a refrigerator, that would automatically buy milk online once it’s empty, but I’m not sure if that really works (or makes any sense). But at least you can now see ads together with weather and news on your refrigerator door.
My parents bought a fancy Samsung fridge with a screen 5 years ago. We bought LG. In the first year they had theirs serviced 6 times before replacing it with the same LG fridge we have. Earlier this year right before the extended warranty ran out the compressor on my fridge died. They’ve not had a single problem with theirs yet.
My brother bought a Samsung TV that was supposed to be better than my LG OLED. In the first year the anti glare coating wore off enough that there are bright spots you can’t not see. My LG TV is fine.
Typed on my Samsung phone.
I couldn’t even list all the horror stories I’ve heard firsthand about Samsung appliances, including massive damage to people’s houses caused by leaks.
When my parents were shopping for a washing machine a couple of years ago, they asked their friend who works at Home Depot what seemed to be reliable and he basically said “anything but Samsung”. They had way more Samsung returns than anything else.
Samsung appliances have had a bad reputation for more than a decade now. I don’t know how they can still sell appliances - how is it not everyone knows yet? How is it they still haven’t fixed the quality problems?
my lab has 14 Samsung fridges, now 5 years old and no problems. But, they just are fridges, no ice or water or other bullshit people seem to love.
Samsung is a big name, and people don’t buy appliances that often.
Remarkable that there were no typos in that post, despite being typed on a Smasnug phone
🤣🤣🤣
Meanwhile my fridge made in communist Yugoslavia is still going strong.
Guess I’ll be keeping my frigidaire a few more years then
If consumers stopped being stupid we would not have issues like this.
Fortunately only the stupid people are affected by this. Everyone else can just laugh at them.
Explain yourself
Lmao that’s what you get for buying a smart fridge. This was inevitable.
“Thats what you get” comments aren’t helpful or productive. Don’t demonize the customer, demonize Samsung in this case. It’s not the customers fault… I highly doubt it said “Advertisements coming soon” om the box when they bought it.
Smart fridges arent helpful either. Its gimmicky bs from tech giants. The same tech giants that inject ads into everything they can for past 20 years. Genuinely, what did you people expect??
Im not trying to be helpful or productive. Obviously. Im making fun of people for buying dumb shit.
Feel free to make fun of ppl, but I hope you realise that these type of comments that ridicule the customers just leave the companies out of the fire and let them continue doing this to us.
Not everyone is technically inclined or educated on this type of stuff, not really their fault that these companies prey on them with this stuff.
Samsung is pretty known to be a shit ass company. You can spend your money how you like, but dont be surprised when someone laughs at you for buying shitty overpriced stuff
Samsung is pretty known to be a shit ass company
Im not sure that they are to the general public.
Edit: I dont think most people know much about the brands they support or use
Or maybe its your job to educate the masses! Go forth, noble knight. Spend your days shouting into the ignorant void
Thats the plan, though I think the void is starting to listen. The other option of do nothing is better in your eyes?
Then they will keep buying crap. Most people dont care and never will and i will continue to get shadenfreude from their ignorance when their overpriced garbage breaks. Nothing people like us can say will convince them. People like that have to learn their own lessons.
Laughing at people won’t help change their minds, it will likely make them reinforce their decisions out of anger etc. So i think you are doing it wrong.
People won’t learn on their own, either we help and things get better (because ppl stop buying this type of garbage) or we laugh and they keep buying poopy for vengeance.
I argue it IS customer’s fault. To let Samsung be able to enshittify this much and still stand on the market.
In my opinion, we can’t blame the customer because they don’t actually sign up for this treatment. Samsung (in this case) didnt tell these people “yeah, there will be ads soon”, no, they bought this product and THEN the ads came.
This happens with a lot of things, they get you in then close the doors and trap you in.
Not everyone knows this happens, so I think we that do should be doing everything we can to stop it, otherwise we will end up with every fridge being a “smart fridge” and we in the know won’t have a choice but to buy one.
Edit: i agree with you to a certain extent and I wish people would think before buying and research brands, etc.
