A really smart fridge would remember what you put in it and remind you to eat that avocado before it goes bad. Or tell you maybe skip buying the salad, 80% of the salad you bought have spoiled languished in the fridge and ended up in the trash. Or it can suggest recipes from its contents plus what the crowdsourced data shows someone of your profile likes.

But nah, smart means it can show ads...

Related:

Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads (68 points, 2 hours ago, 52 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291107

Samsung smart fridge displaying advertisements (32 points, 2 days ago, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45262808

Unsolicited advertising is a form of violence, the sooner we agree on that, the better.

Sounds like this is a great opportunity for competition to enter the market with a fridge that offers the same features, without being online. Its online-required features are all things that it should be able to do offline anyway.

> Another option is to disconnect the fridge from the Internet. Again, though, this would eliminate some core capabilities, like its meal planner, recipes, and shopping list features

…all things that on-device LLMs can already do, for example my MacBook can run Llama 4 (albeit slowly) and it can generate recipes for me.

Samsung will either need to shape up or competitors will enter the market to offer equally fancy but non-annoying fridges. I hope.

Can I just... not connect my fridge to the internet?

What timeline am I living in?

Why pay for advertising, when you can show your ads on your own devices for free? Heh..

This is just God's way of telling you that a screen on a fridge is still a stupid idea.

If you really, really need to have your fridge manage your sell by dates somehow or give you recipes based on what it thinks it has in it (and hopefully the cupboards have the other items) or whatever the tech-brained-fuck you think it'd will do for you, the communications tool in your hand highly optimised for manual input and with a web browser that's not embedded shitware seems a sensible interface.

Or just buy an insulated box with no electronics other than that which controls the light and temperature. And the simpler and more robust that is, the better.

Pihole. There we go.

But also: Don't buy a "smart fridge"

Can't wait for my Samsung Smart washer/dryer to start sounds corporate Jingles using midi.

Advertising will expand to the point where consumers put their foot down. You put your foot down by boycotting this company entirely. Immediately and with no exceptions. Samsung is hereby dead to me. And it should be for you too.

you can always filter them, but if it ever became transactional, that would be problematic

things like this redeem my habit of teaching myself how to do things like refrigeration service and repair, cause I just like mechanical systems another habit is removing the logo from anything that gives me untoward trouble or issues, or anything that sits in living areas. It is easy to see a slow food, dumb home, type of movement developing.

A refrigerator should be an insulated box with the following electrical items: a thermostat, an interior light wired to a door switch, and a compressor motor activated by a contactor that is wired to the thermostat, and I think you need a timing relay to prevent the compressor from cycling too much. Refrigerators are dead simple, it’s the items I just listed plus two heat exchangers, an expansion valve, piping, and refrigerant.

Variable speed motors are icing on the cake that reduce operating costs so I’ll allow for that. What I just described is true for every single commercial refrigerator available for sale, homeowners have absolute garbage to pick from for appliances.

Who are the psychopaths buying refrigerators with screens? Please stop, you’re ruining things for the rest of us. I know Speed Queen exists if you want sane appliances for laundry, but I’d like to know the brands for laundry and kitchen appliances that are well made and not full of insane garbage nobody asked for like screens.