Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
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Re: Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
#2Hopefully DNS level ad blocking will help here, and even more hopefully consumers will reject smart appliances. I'd never buy one
Re: Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
#3Why is this the best business model we can collectively execute on? Whether it is AI, home cameras, or fridges it seems to just come back to, welp, lets slap an ad on it.
Re: Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
#4I'd understand if the ads were subsidizing the purchase price significantly, but this still seems to be in line with their highest pricing.
Re: Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
#5> Samsung also said that its fridges will only show contextualized ads, instead of personalized ads, which rely on collecting data on users.
What is a contextualized ad?
Re: Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
#6Why is this the best business model we can collectively execute on? Whether it is AI, home cameras, or fridges it seems to just come back to, welp, lets slap an ad on it.
Internal incentives not overall profitability drive such behavior.
An executive can point to a profit stream and suggest that’s beneficial to the company while ignoring externalities that cost the company 5x as much. Nobody inside has complete knowledge if someone was a good idea or not so the appearance of benefit often replaces the search for actual benefit.
Re: Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
#7Hopefully DNS level ad blocking will help here, and even more hopefully consumers will reject smart appliances. I'd never buy one
I'll never ever buy a 'smart' appliance. I'll go caveman first. Keeping food cold and/or cooking it does not require the Internet.
Re: Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
#8You do not buy a smart appliance. Period. A fridge, oven, toaster, washing machine, bed do not need to be smart.
Smart is the consumer that is able to spot all this BS ideas that are putting in front of us and avoids it as much as it can.
Re: Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
#9> "Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?"
> "Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky... But not in dreams."
Re: Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
#10Why is this the best business model we can collectively execute on? Whether it is AI, home cameras, or fridges it seems to just come back to, welp, lets slap an ad on it.
I think it's mostly about squeezing consumers for more money, even after they already paid a premium, because they simply can and nobody will do anything about it.