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It has absolutely happened with those things. Cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sceLsLkQf7A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sceLsLkQf7A Fridges: https://f

It has absolutely happened with those things. Cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sceLsLkQf7A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sceLsLkQf7A Fridges: https://fortune.com/2025/09/19/samsung-family-hub-refrigerators-advertisements/ https://fortune.com/2025/09/19/samsung-family-hub-refrigerat... I'm not aware of a smart watch doing first-party ads yet.

mgraczyk 7mo ago
I didn't list fridges because I've seen ads there, but these seem to have gone away in newer models (people don't like ads)
- ceejayoz 7mo ago
  My washing machine's app (LG) has ads, recipes, rewards programs, etc. I think the main thing preventing it on the device itself is they haven't thus far needed a large screen to show them on.
  - lexicality 7mo ago
    Recipes? For washing clothes?
    - ceejayoz 7mo ago
      Yes. LG has a wide line of appliances, so the app has a recipes section.
      - hakfoo 7mo ago
        When we first got our LG TV (a fairly cheap 43" LCD with mediocre brightness and WebOS) you could get an app to be the remote control. It was a convenient option when the remote fell under the couch. They discontinued it for some elaborate "ThinQ" app which was designed to support a huge universe of different devices, and it was no longer something my parents could use. I miss when phones had IR blasters; it was fun that I could control my old NAD 7100 reciever, which predated consumer smartphones by a good decade plus.
DonsDiscountGas 7mo ago
The existence of a single crappy car does not mean all cars are crappy
- ceejayoz 7mo ago
  Sure. But the existence of a single crappy car establishes very definitively that a crappy car can and does exist. Do you think Samsung's the only company that's gonna play with ads on their smart fridges?
  - mgraczyk 7mo ago
    It's not a good reason to be skeptical about cars as a technology (and by analogy brain computer interfaces)
    - ceejayoz 7mo ago
      I think it's pretty solid evidence profit-driven orgs will shove ads anywhere they can, regardless of how good that is for users.
- monooso 7mo ago
  If only it was just a single crappy car. https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/ https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/arti...
- mrweasel 7mo ago
  True, but you can't affort the none crappy one eventually. Basically everything in modern society trends towards either cheap, but shitty, or excellent, but insanely expensive. Our problem is that the used to be a huge middle segment, where you'd pay extra, but you got better quality. That middle segment has more or less disappeared, because it requires a fair bit of volume to be sustainable. Initially we, as in society, got lured in by cheaper prices, and reasonable quality, supported by savings in running super markets vs. a butcher, efficiency gains or subsidizes, maybe in the form of an ad here or there. Once we started expecting lower prices, quality started to go down, but restarting the "pay a little more, for better quality" segment isn't easy.

mgraczyk 7mo ago

I didn't list fridges because I've seen ads there, but these seem to have gone away in newer models (people don't like ads)

ceejayoz 7mo ago
My washing machine's app (LG) has ads, recipes, rewards programs, etc. I think the main thing preventing it on the device itself is they haven't thus far needed a large screen to show them on.
- lexicality 7mo ago
  Recipes? For washing clothes?
  - ceejayoz 7mo ago
    Yes. LG has a wide line of appliances, so the app has a recipes section.
    - hakfoo 7mo ago
      When we first got our LG TV (a fairly cheap 43" LCD with mediocre brightness and WebOS) you could get an app to be the remote control. It was a convenient option when the remote fell under the couch. They discontinued it for some elaborate "ThinQ" app which was designed to support a huge universe of different devices, and it was no longer something my parents could use. I miss when phones had IR blasters; it was fun that I could control my old NAD 7100 reciever, which predated consumer smartphones by a good decade plus.

DonsDiscountGas 7mo ago

The existence of a single crappy car does not mean all cars are crappy

ceejayoz 7mo ago
Sure. But the existence of a single crappy car establishes very definitively that a crappy car can and does exist. Do you think Samsung's the only company that's gonna play with ads on their smart fridges?
- mgraczyk 7mo ago
  It's not a good reason to be skeptical about cars as a technology (and by analogy brain computer interfaces)
  - ceejayoz 7mo ago
    I think it's pretty solid evidence profit-driven orgs will shove ads anywhere they can, regardless of how good that is for users.
monooso 7mo ago
If only it was just a single crappy car. https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/ https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/arti...
mrweasel 7mo ago
True, but you can't affort the none crappy one eventually. Basically everything in modern society trends towards either cheap, but shitty, or excellent, but insanely expensive. Our problem is that the used to be a huge middle segment, where you'd pay extra, but you got better quality. That middle segment has more or less disappeared, because it requires a fair bit of volume to be sustainable. Initially we, as in society, got lured in by cheaper prices, and reasonable quality, supported by savings in running super markets vs. a butcher, efficiency gains or subsidizes, maybe in the form of an ad here or there. Once we started expecting lower prices, quality started to go down, but restarting the "pay a little more, for better quality" segment isn't easy.