Samsung confirms it will begin showing you advertisements on refrigerator screen(fortune.com)
fortune.com
Samsung confirms it will begin showing you advertisements on refrigerator screen
https://fortune.com/2025/09/19/samsung-family-hub-refrigerators-advertisements/
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I 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).
Never buy anything from Samsung
Well, that's one product I won't be buying.
Fuck Samsung. Someones needs to hack the firmware and replace it with something useful.
Make it run Doom.
Samsung doesn't make anything good in the way of appliances anyway... so, pretty easy to avoid this bs.
Aren’t they one of the top screen manufacturers, eg tv
I like how they frame it as “meeting customer needs”, as if customers were begging to see ads on their expensive fridge.
The customers are the advertisers.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291107
Thanks! Macro-expanded:
Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291107 - 12 days ago, 108 comments
Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291107 - 12 days ago, 108 comments
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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?