Samsung's $2000 Smart Fridges Are Getting Ads

There's even a system of governance made to protect consumers. We've just decided to make money a first-class voter.

I was quite shocked when it became obvious the someone with money loved reading and seeing advertisement. They thought it was product information. Banners needed only to be vaguely appealing for them to purchase it. This behavior was further rewarded by companies sending "sample" products like, here are all 12 of our 100 euro per bottle shampoos, we hope you like them.

The ghacks website is free. A Samsung fridge is not.

According to another comment this site might be AI slop so I'm not defending it specifically, but in general journalism is traditionally a service expected to be subsidized by advertising, unlike an appliance you spend thousands of dollars on. The danger is that it becomes normalized that appliances work that way too.

don't blame the victim. nobody asked for this. samsung is taking advantage of their customers.

See Demolition Man for the how future will be like.

Why stop there ? You can display it directly in the brain.

I cannot disagree at all with this statement however I ask what about those connected devices that have no displays but still exist in our world "unseen"?

Take for example the Kohler poo cam announced a few weeks back that has no screen but maybe they secretly included a small speaker that after a firmware update will plop ads on bowl users if management is not seeing the profits from selling only the hardware. Won't that be some funny sh!t?

Or how about brain implant computers, so I ask where will the line be drawn when more and more profit at any cost appears to be the M.O.

Exciting times as connected technology that can see and hear gets smaller and smaller while battery power to weight ratio increases allowing these devices longer and longer life in secluded places.

Ads are 'yesterday' on my screens and it's always been thus, and it will always be so.

Your premise will only become true if people on mass agree with it.

Ah, good old whataboutism.

> Companies need to seriously stop with this. I don't care if they make money by selling that ad space, I'm not going to fucking buy a fridge that advertises to me and needs the internet. It's a fridge for god's sake.

If there's enough money in doing this kind of thing, you may no longer be given that choice by the market. It is under no obligation to provide the choices that are best for you.

All the manufacturers are responding to the same incentives, and if the CEO of one has the morals to resist shoving ads in all the things, it's only a matter of time until he's replaced by an MBA who doesn't. That's capitalism.

absolutely!

and they're now even putting freakin apps into washing machines. It's a disaster. It's getting harder and harder to find appliances that don't have all this nonsense in it.