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It seems this is the natural endgame, every refrigerator will come with an LCD screen on the front that advertises at you. I just hope that my new fridge will

It seems this is the natural endgame, every refrigerator will come with an LCD screen on the front that advertises at you. I just hope that my new fridge will continue to keep my food cold after I smash the screen with a hammer.

thedrbrian 6y ago
Don’t do that. Use it as spare parts for a new project. When the screens do come out they’ll probably run some flavour of android so it might be flashable.
rtkwe 6y ago
I've just never connected my smart tv to the wifi to avoid that fate.
eecc 6y ago
Don’t, they’ll add some routine that makes you tap on some “agree” button and shut down the whole darn thing otherwise... I have an idea: under the perverse excuse of delivering firmware updates for your own network safety!!! Hmm, the plot of Brazil becomes every day more realistic. Ah, what times were living!
umvi 6y ago
Well hopefully we can figure out ways to integrate advertising so deeply into every aspect of our lives that you can no longer escape marketing with pi holes and hammers. Imagine using a public urinal and you can watch an LCD screen while taking care of business. Filling up your car with gas? Fill your mind with ads while you do it! Imagine glasses that show augmented-reality ads based on your current location and what you are looking at, that would be incredible. Any place people rest their eyeballs should contain ads. Digital picture frames that show family photos in your home should occasionally flash ads, etc. Hopefully the National Park Service can install some satellite base stations so that hikers and campers can get the urgent advertising they need to be aware of the latest survival gear while out in nature. Basically, we need to prevent people from having quiet time and thinking - we need to come with as many ways as possible to aggressively interrupt and intrude thoughts with gentle reminders that the economy needs stimulating and that the only way to truly be happy is with more stuff.
- frakt0x90 6y ago
  The urinal and gas station ones are right up the street from me and I don't visit either of those facilities anymore for that reason.
  - BitwiseFool 6y ago
    My corner gas station just rolled out new machines that start playing advertisements on the LCD screens as soon as the pump starts dispensing gas. It made me irrationally angry. One, that I have to deal with even more mental pollution in my daily life. And two, that the person who created this business model realized that pump-goers are quite literally a captive audience and that's the best way to force someone to watch an ad. I complained to the manager and I've never been back. Sadly, part of me knows it's just a matter of time before other gas stations gets these new machines.
    - psadauskas 6y ago
      Most of the gas pumps with ads I’ve seen are the kind with 4 arrow buttons on either side. If you push the 2nd button down on the right side, it’ll mute the audio, and you can go back to listening to traffic and breathing fumes in peace. https://imgur.com/a/D7ZIR https://imgur.com/a/D7ZIR
      - Scoundreller 6y ago
        Phew. The last thing I wanted to associate with the sweet sweet gas fumes was an ad. Let me get mildly intoxicated in relative peace, thank you.
      - bilegeek 6y ago
        Unfortunately, some gas stations have already disabled the mute button; in my personal experience, Speedway was the first in doing that. It's only a matter of time 'til all stations do that.
    - ridaj 6y ago
      Better fix: switch to an EV!
dylan604 6y ago
The hacker part of this website would investigate taking the LCD screen out, and repurposing it. We all know that DIY robot that goes to the fridge to bring you a snack will need some sort of LCD screen to act as an interface for you to choose the snack. It's not like we're going to use an iPad for that. We're too busy putting those in our cars.
jostmey 6y ago
It will make people like us look crazy! People will walk into our homes and see smashed and covered ad-screens
RankingMember 6y ago
My experience with modern refrigerators tells me that the fridge will likely _not_ continue to keep your food cold after the crappy display fails, whether by hammer or otherwise.
reaperducer 6y ago
It seems this is the natural endgame, every refrigerator will come with an LCD screen on the front that advertises at you. Child's crayon drawing + magnet = problem solved.

thedrbrian 6y ago

Don’t do that. Use it as spare parts for a new project. When the screens do come out they’ll probably run some flavour of android so it might be flashable.

rtkwe 6y ago

I've just never connected my smart tv to the wifi to avoid that fate.

eecc 6y ago

Don’t, they’ll add some routine that makes you tap on some “agree” button and shut down the whole darn thing otherwise... I have an idea: under the perverse excuse of delivering firmware updates for your own network safety!!! Hmm, the plot of Brazil becomes every day more realistic. Ah, what times were living!

umvi 6y ago

Well hopefully we can figure out ways to integrate advertising so deeply into every aspect of our lives that you can no longer escape marketing with pi holes and hammers. Imagine using a public urinal and you can watch an LCD screen while taking care of business. Filling up your car with gas? Fill your mind with ads while you do it! Imagine glasses that show augmented-reality ads based on your current location and what you are looking at, that would be incredible. Any place people rest their eyeballs should contain ads. Digital picture frames that show family photos in your home should occasionally flash ads, etc. Hopefully the National Park Service can install some satellite base stations so that hikers and campers can get the urgent advertising they need to be aware of the latest survival gear while out in nature. Basically, we need to prevent people from having quiet time and thinking - we need to come with as many ways as possible to aggressively interrupt and intrude thoughts with gentle reminders that the economy needs stimulating and that the only way to truly be happy is with more stuff.

frakt0x90 6y ago
The urinal and gas station ones are right up the street from me and I don't visit either of those facilities anymore for that reason.
- BitwiseFool 6y ago
  My corner gas station just rolled out new machines that start playing advertisements on the LCD screens as soon as the pump starts dispensing gas. It made me irrationally angry. One, that I have to deal with even more mental pollution in my daily life. And two, that the person who created this business model realized that pump-goers are quite literally a captive audience and that's the best way to force someone to watch an ad. I complained to the manager and I've never been back. Sadly, part of me knows it's just a matter of time before other gas stations gets these new machines.
  - psadauskas 6y ago
    Most of the gas pumps with ads I’ve seen are the kind with 4 arrow buttons on either side. If you push the 2nd button down on the right side, it’ll mute the audio, and you can go back to listening to traffic and breathing fumes in peace. https://imgur.com/a/D7ZIR https://imgur.com/a/D7ZIR
    - Scoundreller 6y ago
      Phew. The last thing I wanted to associate with the sweet sweet gas fumes was an ad. Let me get mildly intoxicated in relative peace, thank you.
    - bilegeek 6y ago
      Unfortunately, some gas stations have already disabled the mute button; in my personal experience, Speedway was the first in doing that. It's only a matter of time 'til all stations do that.
  - ridaj 6y ago
    Better fix: switch to an EV!

dylan604 6y ago

The hacker part of this website would investigate taking the LCD screen out, and repurposing it. We all know that DIY robot that goes to the fridge to bring you a snack will need some sort of LCD screen to act as an interface for you to choose the snack. It's not like we're going to use an iPad for that. We're too busy putting those in our cars.

jostmey 6y ago

It will make people like us look crazy! People will walk into our homes and see smashed and covered ad-screens

RankingMember 6y ago

My experience with modern refrigerators tells me that the fridge will likely _not_ continue to keep your food cold after the crappy display fails, whether by hammer or otherwise.

reaperducer 6y ago

It seems this is the natural endgame, every refrigerator will come with an LCD screen on the front that advertises at you. Child's crayon drawing + magnet = problem solved.