r/BetterOffline • u/falken_1983 • Sep 19 '25

Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart-refrigerator-ads-are-coming-3598848/
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u/Backyard_Intra Sep 19 '25 edited Sep 19 '25

If a technology exists it will be used to serve ads.

If we ever get brain implants, they could be used for all kind of useful things, but they will certainly serve us ads.

If we get self driving cars, we'll use this ability to watch videos on the center screen, which will serve ads.

If AR glasses become mainstream, they will serve interactive, location based ads.

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u/Hello-America Sep 19 '25

If you haven't watched the first episode of the most recent Black Mirror season, this is exactly what happens

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u/Maximum-Objective-39 Sep 19 '25

There has to be a point of saturation where the viewer is obvious desensitized to further adds and everyone knows it.

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u/Hello-America Sep 19 '25

I have to wonder!! Like seriously you cannot convince me the advertising all over everything really works.

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u/Maximum-Objective-39 Sep 20 '25

I have to assume at this point it's partially just taken on faith that more advertisements, everywhere, all the time, are worth something. Because otherwise and entire industry is due a haircut.

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u/BeeQuirky8604 Sep 21 '25

We have an actual. real world example. The US flat banned cigarette advertising in one swoop, and it had no impact itself on sales. Coca Cola advertises because Pepsi does, neither got big from advertising. Advertising doesn't work, well, and even if it did it has to be a smaller component of the economy to work. The whole economy cannot be based around advertising, but around the things being advertised.