Imagine paying top dollar for a brand-new high-end refrigerator only to be greeted with ads on the door display. Sounds like a nightmare? Unfortunately, this nightmare is coming true for Samsung refrigerator owners with the latest update rolling out to their fridges.
I feel the same way. I do everything I can to make my life an ad-free experience, even if that means I miss out on certain things.
And the unnecessary apps can take a hike, too.
When I buy a product these days, one of the key requirements I look for is the ability to use all the features without needing an app.
I don’t want a neck fan with bluetooth, or an oven with monthly firmware updates or a dishwasher where certain functions only work when you have a cloud account
I don’t want to see your ads, and you aren’t having any telemetry from me. Get
off my lawnout of my life.Have to say though, my almost-ad-free existence has made me realise how pervasive advertisements are, and how accepting of them we have become as a society. My dad still watches broadcast TV packed with ads, and while that was normal to me as a child I now find it almost unbearable any time I visit.
Why should corporations get to shove 5 minutes of their garbage into my brain for every 15 minutes of content? My answer is they don’t, and I’m not going to subject myself to it ever again.
Jeff Geerling’s video about that experience crystalized my feelings about it, and is probably why I used “dishwasher” in my original comment. I didn’t know he also had a blog version, thanks.
Yeah, my mom will occasionally send screenshots of her phone or hand it to me for tech support, and I’m horrified at how many ads she has. Home screen widgets with ads. Apps with full screen ads before every page. APP NOTIFICATIONS WITH ADS.
Burn it all down.