Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.

Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.

  • Raiderkev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    3 months ago

    No, I won’t because I’m not stupid enough to buy an Internet connected ad machine refrigerator.

    • ByteOnBikes@discuss.onlineEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      I wonder if it’ll be like TVs, which are cheap as fuck for a really nice TV, but equipped with garbage like Alexa and Amazon fire.

      Right now, you can buy a $200 “smart” TV, or a $1800 “dumb” TV. I wonder if fridges and other appliances will go in that direction.

      • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        Are there even any dumb TVs anymore? The current lineup from CES 2025 is LG (OLED), Samsung (OLED), and TCL (MiniLED) which have great image quality options, but I’m fairly sure all are using a “smart” platform.

        TCL doesn’t bother with software and uses Google TV. Samsung uses Tizen which is linux with another junk UI, though less painful than Google. LG uses webOS which I’ve heard UI side is better, but its still a junk UI on linux.

      • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Literally the only reason my LG TV is hooked up to the wifi is so I can show my wife stuff from my Android phone. For everything else we have an Apple TV.

        I can’t see any good reason to allow a fridge access to the internet.

      • Obi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I mean if it doesn’t make sound I’ll get the cheap “smart” fridge and just cover up the screen, if it’s a high quality fridge besides the screen, no problem.