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"Samsung Family Hub™ for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem The software update includes a more unified user experience across connected devices, enh
by roscas 11mo ago
"Samsung Family Hub™ for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem
The software update includes a more unified user experience across connected devices, enhancements to AI Vision Inside™, expanded Knox Security and more"
In plain English now, Samgung will put advertising on your face but mostly important is that they will know and sell the data about what you buy.
They call it Smart Home. Yeah, "smart". They are the smart ones, not those who buy this **.
- medbrane 11mo agoBut hey, your fridge is now more secure because blockchain (I'm not kidding, it's in the press release)
- tormeh 11mo agoI'm not fact-checking that because that's horrifying. Beyond parody. But I guess that's a trend currently. Edit: I checked because one shouldn't be outraged without fact checking. It's true.
- lostlogin 11mo agoIt’s not a million miles from the Silicon Valley smart fridge plot, as long as someone hacks them all.
- bradly 11mo agoIt appears to also use a peer-to-peer solution to preventing botnets. So a botnet to prevent botnets.
- j45 11mo agoI wonder if the botnets attend conferences.
- heresie-dabord 11mo ago> Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem If you are not elevating the privacy of me and my family, CORPORATRON can suck it. I will spend my money to elevate the sales of a company that respects privacy instead.
- qmr 11mo ago> I will spend my money to elevate the sales of a company that respects privacy instead. Is there such a thing?
- TheNewsIsHere 11mo agoSometimes it matters that the original business isn’t getting the sale. Probably not in this particular case though. Someone my spouse knows recently bought one of the $3500 models that’s getting this, and said person was in the “test” group for the rollout. Their response to the situation has been that they won’t buy Samsung appliances ever again. So if enough of us do that. Maybe.
- celeritascelery 11mo agoI don’t see where it says they are adding advertising. Is something there corporate speak for ads?
- estimator7292 11mo ago"Elevating" is being used as a euphemism for "constantly advertising"
- oakesm9 11mo agoIt’s buried in the “new widgets” section: > As part of the Family Hub™ software update, we are piloting a new widget for select Cover screens themes of Family Hub™ refrigerators. The widget will display useful day-to-day information such as news, calendar and weather forecasts, along with curated advertisements
- zero_shift 11mo agoBuried half way down, As part of the Family Hub™ software update, we are piloting a new widget for select Cover screens themes of Family Hub™ refrigerators. The widget will display useful day-to-day information such as news, calendar and weather forecasts, along with curated advertisements.[11] Wow!! Elevating!!!
- FridayoLeary 11mo agoIf by that they mean owners will elevate their fridge to the highest window in their building and throw it out, then yeah, they're right.
- p_j_w 11mo agoAt least the ads are curated?
- mrandish 11mo agoYes, selling to the highest bidders is a form of curation.
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- qmr 11mo agoThanks, I hate it.
- batrat 11mo agoIt is in the notes, in the article, there is no tracking: "[11] Ads on Family Hub Cover screens will serve contextual or non-personal ads. Family Hub devices are not collectiong personal information or tracking consumers."
- autoexec 11mo agoI don't believe them, but if even they aren't lying to your face today they'll be pushing an update to add tracking tomorrow. Samsung is absolute trash and not to be trusted. They've demonstrated this so many times and in so many ways that anyone investing in "Samsung Family Hub" deserves what they get.