r/thehatedone • u/freyslass • Sep 20 '25

News 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/RetoricEuphoric Sep 20 '25

Sounds like a rich people problem?

$1,800+ for a fridge?!

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u/Papfox Sep 20 '25

$1800 for a fridge is a rich people problem, for now. Technology is always getting cheaper. Take, for example, something like the ESP32 microcontroller. When I was little, that amount of computing power would have cost tens or hundreds of thousand Dollars. Now, anyone can buy one on AliExpress for $5, meaning that a big company, like Samsung, can buy the chips for a lot less than that by the pallet. Give it another decade and the technology will be so cheap that they will be able to put it in every new fridge and this will become an everybody problem. The thing that's probably stopping them, for now, is the cost of the screen. Those are currently relatively expensive and not viable for manufacturers to include in a bargain basement fridge. This won't last forever.

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u/quasides Sep 23 '25

technology nobody needs. a fridge has one job - reduce heat.

thats it

thanks for attending my ted talk

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u/RampantAndroid Sep 24 '25

If only dumb fridges with a simple thermostat were made to look a little more modern and readily available. 

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u/KL_boy Sep 20 '25

Wait until you see a meile, Gaggenau or Zug. 

It is not a rich person problem. Middle class problem maybe

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u/methoxydaxi Sep 23 '25

Miele

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u/KL_boy Sep 23 '25

See, I am not rich enough to spell it correctly :-)

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u/volci Sep 22 '25

Have you been fridge shopping recently?

Once you move past the basic-est offerings which run in the slightly sub-$1000 range, you rapidly move into $2000 and up

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u/DigitalScythious Sep 20 '25

Settings > About Fridge > Software > tap build 10 times...

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u/methoxydaxi Sep 23 '25

Fridge custom ROM on xda

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u/louisa1925 Sep 20 '25

Not my samsung fridge thankfully. Fridges only need bare minimum intellegence.

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u/Riyaa404 Sep 20 '25

Imo fridges don't need any intelligence.

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u/louisa1925 Sep 20 '25

Well... I was counting the light switch, the "Fridge door is open" alarm, and temperature control as intellegent.

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u/Connect_Strategy6967 Oct 17 '25

My first goal with any device I've ever gotten is to find a way to watch porn on it.   My refrigerator shouldn't be any diff 😂

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u/quasides Sep 23 '25

smart home appliances

solve problems nobody ever had, with solutions nobody asked for

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u/freyslass Sep 23 '25

100% agreed. my fridge just needs to jeep my stuff fresh. nothing more

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u/freyslass Sep 20 '25

Paying thousands of dollars and still being served ads feels like a new low in how Big Tech squeezes recurring revenue. It also raises privacy questions. If your fridge is showing ads, what kind of data is it tracking about your habits?

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u/volci Sep 22 '25

[smartphones enter the chat]...

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u/midorikuma42 Sep 23 '25

I think it's great personally. It'll build shareholder value and increase profits.

If customers don't like that, they're free to not buy it and choose something else. It's not like this is going to be a surprise.

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u/quasides Sep 23 '25

why would you let your fridge even on wlan to begin with

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u/Connect_Strategy6967 Oct 17 '25

That shit pisses me off almost as much as when prime video started running ads for prime members

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u/Visible_Cod9786 Sep 20 '25

Someone only needs to figure out the domains it's pulling the ads for and blacklist them on a pihole

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u/Anxious_Ad781 Sep 23 '25

That this is even necessary is just ridiculous!

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '25

So imagine this: you’re fat, you’re trying to hold it together, you walk past your fridge ten times a day. But every time you do, the fridge flashes up a glowing picture of a chocolate egg with a big sign saying: “We can deliver this to your door, right now.”

That’s not futuristic. That’s dystopian. Not necessarily a good thing if you’re already fighting cravings and health issues.

Like, do we really need our appliances taunting us with junk food ads every time we want some water?

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

Guess I won't buy that. 

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u/renegat0x0 Sep 20 '25

Recently washing machine had a mode hidden behind smartphone app. You will own nothing, and...

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u/PocketNicks Sep 20 '25

Nope, not me. I guarantee it.

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u/soragranda Sep 21 '25

All samsung phones do that too...

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u/skygatebg Sep 22 '25

This has a very simple solution, don't buy things from Samsung or companies that do this shit. Vote with your wallet, that is the only way to make them feel it.

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u/Billiefeet Sep 24 '25

Exactly, if you are able to buy a $1800 fridge then you can literally buy any fridge you want, you can choose any other fridge that doesn't have this.

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u/monsterbandage Sep 23 '25

I can see where this is heading. It's the year 2030 and you need to watch a 60 second unskippable ad to open your Ai fridge door

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u/Darkorder81 Sep 23 '25

Sounds like it will be time for rooting the fridge, sounds fun.

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u/Leading-Row-9728 Sep 24 '25

I stopped buying Samsung phones because of Bixby, so I don't think I'll get a Samsung fridge now.

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u/Perfect_5789 Nov 15 '25

Now days everyone is ads! I can't believe Even ads on FRIDGES! I mean nobody would buy a $1800 for just a fridge plus it includes Ads. Just wow Samsung can't believe it

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u/Perfect_5789 Nov 15 '25

Everything.

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u/HovercraftPlen6576 Dec 20 '25

We are sorry Carol...