cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37646129

Source: Reddit post— Private front-end.

Samsung Statement to Android Authority:

Samsung is committed to innovation and enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers. As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen that value, we are conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and curated advertisements on certain Samsung Family Hub refrigerator models in the U.S. market.

As a part of this pilot program, Family Hub refrigerators in the U.S. will receive an over-the-network (OTN) software update with Terms of Service (T&C) and Privacy Notice (PN). Advertising will appear on certain Family Hub refrigerator Cover Screens. The Cover Screen appears when a Family Hub screen is idle. Ad design format may change depending on Family Hub personalization options for the Cover Screen, and advertising will not appear when Cover Screen displays Art Mode or picture albums.

Advertisements can be dismissed on the Cover Screens where ads are shown, meaning that specific ads will not appear again during the campaign period.

    • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      221·
      10 hours ago

      Stay the fuck away from Samsung appliances. They’re very pretty, very expensive, and a pile of shit.

      Do you want something like this sort of thing Samsung makes? Get an LG. They’re excellent. The refrigerators used to have a bunch of problems, but they fixed all that. And they make great laundry appliances, too.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        5 hours ago

        LG is getting greedy though. They removed the Permanent Press button so that you have to connect it to Wi-Fi and use the app to set that cycle. Same with “just rinse and spin”. The app is so unbearably slow that I was motivated to figure out how to set up a Home Assistant server and make my own custom dashboard to use in order to avoid interacting with that damn app.

        The actual wash/dry performance is excellent, though.

      • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        8 hours ago

        I’m going to say all LG laundry stuff must not be created equal. We have two washing machines at work and they both break every month . The only tech I can think of that’s worse are HP printers.

        I fix ours (not my job, but it’s a good mental break from regular work), I start a new job next month and my boss asked what he should do about them.

        Wait until they break and get something else, they’re not worth fixing. It’ll be cheaper and less downtime to buy something good.

        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          7 hours ago

          Meanwhile I have a pair of Kenmore 80 series washer and dryer. They’re more reliable than my own heart and lungs, and I can get parts for them when a knob or a lid switch goes bad once every decade or two.

        • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          Yeah, that was also my experience when I was selling them. About 95% of them were great. And it was always this, like, 5% that just were not.

        • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
          10·
          9 hours ago

          The LG ones? Yeah, they did about 2 years ago. They’re also backwards compatible with all of their previous refrigerator, models, so if you have to get a replacement, it will actually work.

        • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          9 hours ago

          LG is positively vicious on clothes. Also, fun fact, it’ll run a gentle cycle with the water turned off. It only seems to notice water level on runs that do load sensing.

          Miele, Bosch, or gtfo for cleaning appliances.