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Refrigerator ads are finally here! (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 day ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 4 points 1 hour ago

I have seen a video about this shit also being implemented in cars. You can drive down the highway, with your GPS on and a pop up ad appears out of the blue, blocking the screen, not really allowing you to get rid of it before you remove your attention from the road to the screen, trying to figure out what button to push to get rid of the ad.

And the fact that people pay extra for cars and fridges to show them ads is just so friggin stupid. If people buy these products after knowing that they pay extra to be bombarded with ads, its 100% on them.

But in the case of the car, I do feel that shit should be illegal. It's so fucking dangerous and irresponsible from the manufacturer to implement a "feature" that can cost lives.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 55 minutes ago

waiting for the zero day fridge vulns... shouldn't be long now

[–] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

bootstrapping problem if you need to drink your Mountain Dew(tm) verification can before you can open the door.

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Gotta keep some warm ones outside the fridge just for this situation. It only takes a couple of warm Mountain Dew's to get people back in line.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

So, if I bought this at Costco, and the fridge was 10 years old, I'd use their guarantee to return the motherfucker and make a ~~huge~~ epic fucking scene if they tried to refuse.

edit: huge wasn't enough, it would be epic.

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

Long Live The White Box!

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You bought a fridge with a tv. You knew it was going to happen

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 points 39 minutes ago

I hate this mentality.

"You did a thing, you knew what was going to happen" is victim-blaming. It's increasingly hard NOT to buy a device that has some bullshit tech pushed into it, or AI pushed into it. And I'd bet there was nothing on the sales floor about eventual ads.

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

I don't recognize this, what's it from?

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 2 points 31 minutes ago (1 children)

Idk but im seeing cyberpunk, the apartment you have

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 minutes ago (1 children)

Bingo Choom!

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 minutes ago

YEESSSS I WIN

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

"Dumb" is the new "smart".

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

By 2030 everyone's kitchen will look like fucking Times Square

The stairs to your basement will look like the London Underground. We're going down the fucking tube... literally and metaphorically

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Only the poors will have this. Your land Lord is going to go for the cheapest option which will probably have a screen you don't want with sound you can't mute.

People buying subzero or other luxury brands will be fine though.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Your entire home will. They're going to figure out how to pipe ads through every connection you have. When your smoke alarm batteries need changing, it will start blaring ads for Eveready.

[–] Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I can feel it coming. I've started to devest myself anything that dares to show me an ad. It's liberating. You don't actually have to live in their algorithmic black box. RSS still exist, fediverse isn't going anywhere and the constellation of ad blockers are still doing the Lords work. Fuck the marketers.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 52 minutes ago

Last night, I stayed in a hotel with streaming on the TV, so I checked out YouTube, and some past guest left it signed in.

His algorithm looked a LOT different from mine, with a lot of really sappy religious stuff. I wondered what the guy is going to think when his algorithm is starts recommending guitar videos. It could be worse.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Always wild when people seem confused about why you'd want to do this.

BECAUSE THESE ONES LOOKED AT YOUR SCREEN AND THE ARTICLE WAS TWO INCHES OF TEXT BETWEEN FIVE INCH ADVERTISER BARS BRENDA THAT'S WHY

[–] Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

For me its a principle thing too. I've always really despised tv adverts back when we only had 4 channels in the UK and I've maintained the hatred all these years. If you do even the most cursory dive into marketing you realise the people involved in the industry are the most vile, horrible cunts ever.

Fuck your ads, fuck your marketing. Choose no.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 49 minutes ago

I can appreciate a well made ad that hits the right notes - comedy, heart, etc. A good one can be like a tiny movie.

The only real problems is that those decent ads are only about 1 out of 10, or less, and then they show ALL of them, good or bad, way too many times, until you want to attack the TV with a flamethrower.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 34 points 7 hours ago (10 children)

Appliance repair man here. You can turn the screen off from a cover you remove from the top of the fridge door. Do so. You don't need a fucking android tablet on your fridge.

Also don't buy these kinds of appliances. They're terrible!

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

What the fuck do they even do? I thought they were supposed to scan the ingredients in your fridge, then tell you what's about to expire and what recipes you can make. But apparently they can't even do that, so what purpose do they serve that I can't already accomplish by bringing my phone into the kitchen?

Can they at least monitor the temperature across different areas of the fridge, or connect to my power meter like my thermostat can and optimize power usage to be lower when electricity is more expensive? Or are they literally just an Android tablet glued to a fridge?

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah man, I'll take my 1990's ass GE fridge I got for free over one of these any day.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

It's a significantly better fridge in every way a lot of my clients have a really hard time understanding or believing that.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

No thanks. I wonder if the damn thing will have a hidden barcode reader.

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