I like how they frame it as “meeting customer needs”, as if customers were begging to see ads on their expensive fridge.

The customers are the advertisers.

I now have ads on HBO Max, Prime Video and Disney+. Netflix also has ads.

Phone apps collect your data and show you ads.

Some smart TVs show you ads, and also collect your data.

Now the fridges.

When will we get ads beamed into our dreams à la Futurama?

I always wondered if "Lightspeed Briefs" was a pun on the "FTL" abbreviation that Fruit of the Loom used at the time (no idea if they still do).

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291107

Thanks! Macro-expanded:

Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291107 - 12 days ago, 108 comments

Never buy anything from Samsung

Well, that's one product I won't be buying.

Fuck Samsung. Someones needs to hack the firmware and replace it with something useful.

Make it run Doom.

Samsung doesn't make anything good in the way of appliances anyway... so, pretty easy to avoid this bs.

Aren’t they one of the top screen manufacturers, eg tv