It has absolutely happened with those things.

Cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sceLsLkQf7A

Fridges: https://fortune.com/2025/09/19/samsung-family-hub-refrigerat...

I'm not aware of a smart watch doing first-party ads yet.

mgraczyk 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I didn't list fridges because I've seen ads there, but these seem to have gone away in newer models (people don't like ads)

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ceejayoz 5 hours ago | parent [-]

My washing machine's app (LG) has ads, recipes, rewards programs, etc.

I think the main thing preventing it on the device itself is they haven't thus far needed a large screen to show them on.

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lexicality 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Recipes? For washing clothes?

	▲	ceejayoz 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes. LG has a wide line of appliances, so the app has a recipes section.

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DonsDiscountGas 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The existence of a single crappy car does not mean all cars are crappy

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monooso 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If only it was just a single crappy car.

https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/arti...

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ceejayoz 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sure.

But the existence of a single crappy car establishes very definitively that a crappy car can and does exist.

Do you think Samsung's the only company that's gonna play with ads on their smart fridges?

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mgraczyk 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It's not a good reason to be skeptical about cars as a technology (and by analogy brain computer interfaces)

	▲	ceejayoz 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think it's pretty solid evidence profit-driven orgs will shove ads anywhere they can, regardless of how good that is for users.

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mrweasel 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

True, but you can't affort the none crappy one eventually. Basically everything in modern society trends towards either cheap, but shitty, or excellent, but insanely expensive.

Our problem is that the used to be a huge middle segment, where you'd pay extra, but you got better quality. That middle segment has more or less disappeared, because it requires a fair bit of volume to be sustainable. Initially we, as in society, got lured in by cheaper prices, and reasonable quality, supported by savings in running super markets vs. a butcher, efficiency gains or subsidizes, maybe in the form of an ad here or there. Once we started expecting lower prices, quality started to go down, but restarting the "pay a little more, for better quality" segment isn't easy.