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Samsung confirms it will begin showing you advertisements on refrigerator screen
- dabinat 1y agoI like how they frame it as “meeting customer needs”, as if customers were begging to see ads on their expensive fridge.
- CamperBob2 1y agoThe customers are the advertisers.
- ChrisArchitect 1y agoDiscussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291107
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- metadat 1y agoThanks! Macro-expanded: Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291107 - 12 days ago, 108 comments
- burnt-resistor 1y agoFuck Samsung. Someones needs to hack the firmware and replace it with something useful.
- tomkarho 1y agoMake it run Doom.
- bni 1y agoNever buy anything from Samsung
- lowlevel 1y agoSamsung doesn't make anything good in the way of appliances anyway... so, pretty easy to avoid this bs.
- zaphirplane 1y agoAren’t they one of the top screen manufacturers, eg tv
- deafpolygon 1y agoWell, that's one product I won't be buying.
- boobsbr 1y agoI 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 1y agoI 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).