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.

    • 2910000@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      14 hours ago

      As someone who’s into home automation:

      1. Some of the features are cool, like seeing what’s in your fridge remotely. That’d be nice to have while I’m out shopping
      2. I currently have an old NUC hooked up to a little interface and some speakers in my kitchen. It’s a bit janky, and it would be nice to run that through some hardware that’s actually intended for kitchen use

      Admittedly I’m not sure I could justify the price for “would be nice” features like that

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        Ok I’ve been wondering this about the “see the contents of your fridge” thing.

        Where does the camera go? What part of the fridge is firing of away from the food storing part that you could get a good angle with a camera. The only place you could put it is on the door, but then it’s just right up against the milk and you wouldn’t be able to see anything.

        • 2910000@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          I imagined something like this (youtube video L7iROzIKm1M ) but idk if it’s still a thing

          It’s moot for me anyway because there’s no chance of appliance makers opening up their hardware

          EDIT: can’t post a link to YT for some reason

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        I live in England and own a small (by US standards) fridge. That last head of cabbage has nowhere to hide. You can see everything in a glimpse.

        Which ties in to two broader considerations: we don’t overheat our homes, so you can leave things like butter on the kitchen counter that would be refrigerated in most of the US, and we live in a small, compact city, so anything we need is no more than a 10-minute walk away. So there’s no reason to stock up a huge fridge (though we do have a separate freezer).

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        11 hours ago

        Can’t you just look. That’s how I do it, I look at it. I open the door and I look at what I’ve got in the fridge, and that’s how I know what I’ve got in the fridge.

      • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        14 hours ago

        ah. We ended up using Paprika for His Lordship’s ADHD. Bonus is he could noodle through it on the train home and snag anything he wanted at the supermarket on the way past.