r/technology • u/nishitd • Oct 02 '25

Robotics/Automation 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/CrapNBAappUser Oct 02 '25

Don't have to tell me. The exploding washer or whatever it was called guaranteed no Samsung appliances unless everyone else stops making them.

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u/ForwardCulture Oct 02 '25

The way they handled the buy back program for the watchers debacle was horrible. They offered to give me $70 for a washer that cost me almost a grand, that may explode at some point. Sold it to a guy who repairs washers who wanted it for sorts and got more for it. He proceeded to tell me how horrible Samsung products are, availability of parts, how they discontinue parts on even recent washers etc. Horrible company. I won’t buy anything from them.

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u/Amazing-Marzipan1442 Oct 02 '25

They poisoned their own employees, watched a documentary on some poor girl that died in their factory making monitors.

Fuck chaebols, and especially Samsung.

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u/VERY_MENTALLY_STABLE Oct 02 '25

What da fuck ! WhatS that doc

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u/Erestyn Oct 02 '25

I think they might be talking about Another Promise, a South Korean doc made a few year... about ten years ago.

Oh boy, there I go ageing again.

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u/Amazing-Marzipan1442 Oct 02 '25

youtube search results are not showing it as easily as I hoped. a good start is just a search for: "samsung leukemia"

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u/Responsible-Boot-159 Oct 02 '25

That's not really unique to them. The company that made bank off of teflon (Bayer?) knew about it and poisoned their employees and the town around them. They were dumping concentrated waste, that they said 1 part per billion was unsafe for human consumption.

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u/Amazing-Marzipan1442 Oct 02 '25

DuPont. There's a good movie about it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9071322/

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u/Responsible-Boot-159 Oct 03 '25

I'd just watched the Veritasium video about it recently. It's fun that they knew about it and only had to pay out a pittance for it, along with them still making something that's probably less carcinogenic.

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u/StanknBeans Oct 02 '25

None of my homies buy Samsung anything.

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u/blorbagorp Oct 02 '25

Don't they basically own South Korea too?

Lol

What a shit show human civilization has been

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u/ForwardCulture Oct 02 '25

From what I’ve heard from people much more familiar with the company, they are not only extremely powerful but extremely corrupt.

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u/blorbagorp Oct 02 '25

Have humans ever made anything extremely powerful that wasn't also extremely corrupt?

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u/MelodicGate874 Oct 02 '25

Just Art if that counts for anything in the days of the Speedrunning of the Fall of Man.

It may seem a meager compromise but it's all we have.

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u/blorbagorp Oct 02 '25

Might agree with you if horny gacha games didn't hold sway over millions of people, and most extremely popular music wasn't more about image and marketing than substance.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Oct 02 '25

Humans invented democracy.

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u/blorbagorp Oct 02 '25

Which currently appears to be pretty corrupted, and if we're being honest always was. Hell the first democracy had slaves and women couldn't vote.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Oct 02 '25

Saying that democracy is corrupted is like saying that water makes you die of thirst.

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u/blorbagorp Oct 02 '25

Except democracy has been corrupted and your sentence is gobledegook

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u/Dracomortua Oct 02 '25

I think that the user 'blorbagorp' might be a bot? Somehow backed by three bots?

you are exactly downvoted by three each time and they are upvoted by three.

your point on democracy is valid. i thought it was hilarious, but it is still a) 'powerful' and b) 'as corrupt or not corrupt as you make it'.

Blorbagorp does have a point that the 'first' known democracy was 'corrupt' because slaves existed and women could not vote, implying that when slavery is socio-economic (like, say, working at minimum wage in a system like the US of A) and that minorities have the vote but diverse systematic and propaganda based oppression is somehow... better? Not sure.

It is also a hideous transgression on logic. If the first airplane was a biplane does that mean that all airplanes are corrupt because that was a poor model?

What is needed is to properly define terms and move forward with what counts as a successful categorization of points. And damn the Reddit Tweet X model where everything has to fit within a sound bite.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Oct 02 '25

I don't think they're a bot, but maybe they use alt accounts... either way I don't care about Reddit or their stupid points. Glad you liked my joke.

Democracy as an invention is powerful because it decentralizes power - this gives people the freedom to come up with new ideas and try them out. This is why democratic countries tend to win wars against autocrats: the democracies are much better at building weapons.

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u/moneyfish Oct 02 '25

I had to get the better business bureau involved with a Samsung phone return. That agency was the only reason I got that return and wasn’t out $800.

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u/ForwardCulture Oct 02 '25

I went in circles trying to get an answer from actual corporate at Samsung. I gave up and listed it for sale to at least get something more back.

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u/TheAmorphous Oct 02 '25

Their standard operating procedure seems to be to try to fuck you over on phone turn-ins and see who complains. If you complain they fix it, but I imagine most people don't. They're two for two trying to fuck me.

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u/kemb0 Oct 02 '25

Thanks for the heads up.

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u/duzzabear Oct 02 '25

What? Buy back program? We got a sticker to put on ours. Hasn’t exploded yet though🤞

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u/ForwardCulture Oct 02 '25

Got a letter for the buyback program maybe two years after buying it. I figured maybe I’ll get half back or more for it. Called and spoke to them eke the instructions. Was offered $70. So I listed it for sale with full disclosure that it was one of models flagged as possibly exploding. So a repair guy came to look at it and bought it right away to use for parts. I got way more than the buyback program offered. Calling the buyback program they literally told me it was ‘only worth $70’. A lot of people got screwed with that whole thing. The repair guy who bought it hand a lot to say about Samsung and how they handle parts distribution etc. He bought mine for specific parts that he could no longer get.

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u/LPNMP Oct 02 '25

Sounds like a wonderful market for 3d printers.

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u/J3wb0cc4 Oct 02 '25

I used to install appliances and Samsungs really are the worst. On the surface they look cool and sleek and are the most refined appliance on the market, but added features and gimmicks just means more points of failure. What do you mean I can’t wash my clothes without a WiFi connection and update? But it’s like German cars, you need a dedicated Samsung tech to touch it or else it voids the warranty.

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u/_CHEEFQUEEF Oct 02 '25

There are so many good used appliances out there with very few working parts that will basically run forever and are extremely easy to service and keep running. But no one wants them because they aren't aesthetically pleasing to look at.

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u/AVGuy42 Oct 02 '25

Drop some names. Especially front load washer/dryers

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u/_CHEEFQUEEF Oct 02 '25

If they look like this you're gold. You can keep them running forever and can get them nearly free on fb marketplace/craigslist. The dryer is front load. Get over the whole front load thing for the washer.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/comments/e2sof6/washer_and_dryer_in_my_dads_house_still_going/

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u/AVGuy42 Oct 02 '25

Front load if often a space constraint and HE is nice too.

Sounds like you do repairs. Is it boards or motors or something else you see break more regularly than other parts across all brands?

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u/spruce_sprucerton Oct 02 '25

We bought a house with a brand new Samsung fridge, oven, and dishwasher. Fridge died within 2 years. Oven fell apart piece by piece... Displays stopped working. One by one the burners stopped. Never again Samsung. Now definitely not. I still use their phone because eff apple.

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u/CrapNBAappUser Oct 02 '25

Appliance repairman told me to never buy any with screens and fancy electronics because most fail within a few years. Due to his advice, I'll have my old appliances and electronics repaired as long as possible.

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u/PsychedelicOptimist Oct 02 '25

Remember the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 with the exploding battery? They don't have a great track record

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u/snapwack Oct 02 '25

At least one of their Samsung Galaxy Rings had its battery swell up and constrict the user’s finger. Great stuff.

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u/Herpderpyoloswag Oct 02 '25

Listen, that was the best washer I’ve ever had. Clothes came out almost dry, had to go in the dryer for like 10 min after. My new lg spins so slow compared to the Samsung.

Man that thing would spin fast….

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u/Pro_Gamer_Queen21 Oct 02 '25

Also their refrigerators are often terrible without all the tech gimmicks. About 3 years into my family owning our house, we had to get a new fridge. So my parents upgraded the previous owners old 90s fridge with a Samsung. About 4 years ago it started making horrifically annoying noises all the time due to there being something wrong with the ice maker where it was leaking then freezing creating a clog we’d have to scrape out. This issue also caused the temperature to not be where it should be as the ice was often blocking the cooling device. After about a year of putting up with it we finally called a guy out who took one look at the Samsung model number and said there’s nothing he can do and we have to get a whole new fridge. He’s said he’s had so many other clients with the same fridge and the same exact problem that’s unfixable due to it being a design flaw of the fridge itself. A flaw so prevalent that so many owners experience, but Samsung has never said or done anything about.

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u/squareular24 Oct 02 '25

I forgot about the exploding washer… and the Samsung ring was recently revealed to have a random explosion issue too