Samsung's $2000 smart fridges are getting ads

econord 10/29/2025|

Suck it, jin-yang!

pattle 10/29/2025||

I'm sorry I can't take this article seriously. It's complaining about ads but the ghacks website itself is covered in adverts.

kahirsch 10/29/2025||

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

gdulli 10/29/2025||

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.

wartywhoa23 10/29/2025|

Those who support braindead ideas (like fridges with HD displays and internet connection) with their buck, must suffer.

GuinansEyebrows 10/29/2025|

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

wartywhoa23 10/29/2025||

Nobody bought those at gunpoint.

Thinking "alright, here's this beautiful screen to brag about, and here's this cutting edge internet connection to feel connected to the progress, nothing can go wrong, it's developed by a well-intentioned for-profit corporation, get lost, tinfoilhats" is enough of a malicious mindset to warrant the blame.

And this is not some fictional attitude, it's the one I heard from a multitude of people on many occasions.

Gigachad 10/30/2025|||

Seems like they changed the deal post sale to introduce ads. They should be required to offer a full refund or opt out to users who don’t agree.

GuinansEyebrows 10/29/2025|||

look, i'm not comparing people who buy a stupid fridge with crime victims. but those people are not involved with the ability to push invasive advertising onto the stupid fridge -- it's the profit-motivated assholes who work for the corporation producing the fridge, and the shareholders who let them get away with lying about their intentions.

yes, there's some level of expecting to be screwed by a vendor based on past experience, but we should never shift the blame away from the people actually Doing The Bad Thing and we should always hold their feet to the fire before we say "you should have known better, dummy who needs to keep their food and medicine cold and thinks the shiny screen is neat".

It's not morally or ethically wrong to think the shiny screen is neat.