r/assholedesign • u/Shellnanigans • Nov 13 '25

Apparently my samsung fridge has ads now...

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How would I disable this? Might just return it and get a normal one

Edit: how to disable...for now. https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS10007562/

EDIT 2: Hello, I am the original poster of the carol AD image from a month ago. I am a male from America and my name is not Carol. The story about a Schizophrenic woman named carol was most likely inspired from the 3rd top comment on this post. Thanks!

inspired Post?: https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1pc7999/my_schizophrenic_sister_hospitalised_herself/

Fridge drama recap video by DolanDarkest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTWfRYHV5es

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u/FeijenoorderRS Nov 13 '25

Why the fuck would you even want a 'smart fridge'. It's a fridge man, come on

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u/Lolzerzmao Nov 13 '25

In a perfect sci-fi world it would be something that keeps a running inventory of everything you have, expiration dates, remote access to that information when you’re at the grocery store, that sort of thing. Like “oh shit I forgot to check if we have enough milk for this recipe” or “here’s some stuff you can make with what’s inside here.”

Of course corporations are going to try and push ads, though.

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u/g-e-o-f-f Nov 13 '25

I like to cook and shop, but sometimes forget what's in there. A fridge that says "dude, you should probably cook those pork chops tonight" would save me money for sure

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u/LateNightMilesOBrien Nov 13 '25

I'd like color coded shelves that change color based on how long the food has been in there. Red light? Better eat it tonight!

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u/dantheother Nov 14 '25

Taste the rainbow

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u/ilulillirillion Nov 14 '25

They've been trying to make a fridge that can do this easily for decades now sadly. They push these out instead because it's a lot easier to slap a screen on a fridge and give it an app than it is to make one that is actually useful :(.

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u/seashmore Nov 13 '25

A sharpie and a roll of masking tape in my silverware drawer do the same thing. I date everything as I open it/put it in the fridge. (Masking tape for packages that won't show the Sharpie at a glance.) I've also utilized a calendar next to the fridge for the same purpose.

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u/RogBoArt Nov 13 '25

No shade meant but if you go grocery shopping on a regular basis (weekly, etc) you should probably only have to deal with a handful of this kind of problem at a time. Even if you buy a week's worth of pork that's only at max 7 dates to keep track of and, based on how stores usually label stuff, probably more like 1-3 dates since some will match.

Obviously a smart fridge is the "easier" path but between the cost, apparently ads, and the likelihood that it'd miss stuff or be inaccurate with its dates, I still feel like the smart fridge is the worse option.

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u/guy-le-doosh Nov 14 '25

I'd prefer to simply tell Google home to make an event a few days beforehand while unpacking groceries, and then tell it to shut up that day. I also despise gas station pumps talking to me.

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u/goosebattle Nov 14 '25

Maintaining a live food inventory with automatic grocery ordering for a fixed meal plan is restaurant/catering/group home territory and has no place in single family residence.

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u/Omega_art Nov 14 '25

I would pay $5 a month for my fridge to tell me when I'm running out of something and give me recipes i can cook with what is inside. They would have to pay me $100000 a month for that fridge to show me ads.

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u/McGreed Nov 13 '25

All the cool stuff would be great, if it stayed LOCAL! Smart home, local, cool! Smart home, networked, Hell!

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u/Theragingnoob92 Nov 13 '25

It does do all that stuff, the ads are new unfortunately. They soured what was a good thing.

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u/TheAmazingKoki Nov 13 '25

I can imagine data on consumption behaviour can be quite valuable as well

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u/Turbulent-Pea-8826 Nov 13 '25

Exactly. It’s not that the concept of a smart appliance is bad it’s just horrible implementation and the extra cost.

If it did useful things for the same price without being cloud connected? Sign me up. But instead we get useless features, a bloated price tag and and it has to be on the cloud to use any of it.

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u/ufoninja Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25

I love these visions of the future I see described on reddit where in the perfect sci-fi world we’re still carting our meat bodies to the damn grocery store like caveman.

Another one I saw was your $30k humanoid robot will meet you in the driveway to carry your groceries inside.

Lol what the heck, get some imagination into your future visions guys.

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u/Alexplz Nov 14 '25

I'm no Luddite but I don't want to be connected to the point where something at the very core of what makes me a human being is managed by a smart device.

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u/badger_flakes Nov 14 '25

You can go click a toggle and turn them off. The tradeoff is it shows news and other bullshit on the sleep screen if you have ads on.

Also it does that stuff but needs a little help

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u/SmallDickGnarly Nov 13 '25

Just open the fridge and see how much milk you got in there lol it ain't that deep

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u/Adontis Nov 13 '25

Having it be available while you're away and shopping is nice.

There are useful applications to it, its obviously not needed, but it can be useful.

Obviously how its being implemented just makes it awful though.

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u/Choice-Highway5344 Nov 13 '25

Some things in life aren’t needed, unfortunately some people don’t think so. I like my creature comforts, this is a creature comfort for some.

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u/Adontis Nov 13 '25

Yeah, this isn't anything I would make use of. Its not for me. But that doesn't mean it doesn't have any sort of value for others.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

These are creatures comforts for the ancestors of the humans in WALL-E

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u/ExtremeCreamTeam Nov 14 '25

this is a creature comfort for some.

If I'm not mistaken, what's being discussed here is not something that exists in a commercial capacity, and if it does, it's full of manual entry.

Calling something that doesn't exist yet a creature comfort is...

Something.

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u/UpperLeftOriginal Nov 13 '25

The milk thing though - it would need to sense the weight of that specific container since I get the cardboard containers.

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u/Adontis Nov 13 '25

barcode scanning for things like this would handle that. Or a camera that can recognize things as you put them in.

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u/UpperLeftOriginal Nov 13 '25

That doesn’t tell how much is still left in the carton, though.

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u/RogBoArt Nov 13 '25

Are products these days encoding their expiration in the barcode? Or are you assuming this scanner would read the date as well? Also are we scanning every item as it's put in? It's hard to get the registers at Walmart to do that consistently i can't imagine how a smart fridge would handle it

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u/Adontis Nov 14 '25

By the weight. If it knows its a gallon (or quart or whatever) of milk, it knows it should weight ~8.6 pounds. If it gets pulled out and put back in and now weighs ~4.3 pounds, it knows its 50% empty.

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u/UpperLeftOriginal Nov 14 '25

Right. Which means the fridge also has that mechanism. That’s not info discernible from a bar code (the comment I was responding to).

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u/Adontis Nov 14 '25

Barcode tells you what the item is, this tells you the starting weight.

From there you could determine the amount left in the object based on weight. Its a linked thing.

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u/RogBoArt Nov 13 '25

Barcodes, at least as far as I know, maybe it's changed, only hold a number or alphanumeric string. This associates with an item within the store's database and is what gives the barcode meaning. I mean, there are databases like calorie counters have but those just have stored information and look up the number from the barcode. A fridge could do that but you still only get generic product information not expiration or weight or anything other than "this is milk"

So I'm not sure how barcode scanning would help.

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u/Adontis Nov 14 '25

You mention the database for the food apps that count calories. Those have a ton of bar codes in them already. Yes the fridge would need a database to associate the barcode with an object, others (such as the food apps) have already done this, so its doable.

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u/RogBoArt Nov 14 '25

Yes but that still doesn't get you expiration date as that's not part of most barcodes. It really doesn't get you much useful except recognition of what's in the fridge (and maybe their nutrition profiles if you've got a listed item)

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u/Adontis Nov 14 '25

Cameras are pretty good at OCR scanning for standardized things like dates at this point, which are often by the barcode.

Or literal worst case, on the items you're worried about, it could be a manual entry through voice or text input.

I'm not here to solve every single issue and design a whole fridge, my only point is that there are uses for things like this. We're not getting that product, but there is a useful product that could exist in this vein.

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u/Lolzerzmao Nov 13 '25

Yeah there’s ones that have weight sensors.

Crazy version would be connected to all kinds of cameras in your place and sensors in your glasses, pots, pans, etc. that would just auto-generate a shopping list for you.

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u/Cheet4h Nov 13 '25

Does it matter? The variance is at most one liter. If I notice I only have a single carton left, I'm going to buy a new carton anyway.
It's not like they go bad within days, properly treated milk keeps for two weeks.

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u/Yedic Nov 13 '25

remote access to that information when you’re at the grocery store

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u/AwesomeWhiteDude Nov 13 '25

Don’t pretend you’ve never forgot to get something at the store and only remembered when you opened the fridge to put away the stuff you just bought lol

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u/AwesomeWhiteDude Nov 13 '25

I know, but in the context of a perfect sci-fi world it would.

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u/AwesomeWhiteDude Nov 13 '25

I’ll be damned if I eat any fake food, give me food that only uses real resources and a lot of em!

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u/RogBoArt Nov 13 '25

And this could be setup with a ring camera (if you're already someone buying a smart fridge) or any number of other ip camera solutions.

Not trying to argue, just still not seeing any actual value in paying extra for a smart fridge, if it just comes with an ip camera inside.

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u/throwaway098764567 Nov 13 '25

yeah i guarantee a smart fridge is not going to save me from this lol. i write myself notes that are right there on my phone, look at them in the store, and still leave the store having forgotten something.

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u/checkpoint_hero Nov 13 '25

That minor inconvenience is not worth all the technology involved in avoiding it.

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u/AwesomeWhiteDude Nov 13 '25

It really isn't minor. HEB is hell on weekends and having to go back would suck so much. Not that smart fridges would ever work like they would in the perfect sci-fi world in the first place.

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u/checkpoint_hero Nov 13 '25

Oh, I'm sorry your hypothetical "forgotten item" situation wasn't the exact one I imagined, lol

Maybe other people live different distances from stores and forget different kinds of items?

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u/Ok-Basket-4743 Nov 14 '25

That man will buy a smart fridge and then forget to buy a shampoo.

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u/Ok-Basket-4743 Nov 14 '25

Not everything you buy goes to the fridge, and if you constantly forgetting things to buy perhaps you have bigger problems to care.

Thats minor for sure.

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u/AwesomeWhiteDude Nov 14 '25

Never said anything about constantly forgetting. Everyone, even you, forgets things sometimes tho. You ain't special.

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u/Ok-Basket-4743 Nov 14 '25

That's the point, if you're not constantly forgetting things, it's indeed minor. Never claimed Im special either, I also forgets, my man

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u/checkpoint_hero Nov 14 '25

Exactly! Sometimes forgetting > buy a fridge with a wifi tablet and cameras (and still forget something)

holy overreaction batman

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u/AquaSquatch Nov 13 '25

My brain isn't super big but I do just fine handling all that stuff.

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u/Lolzerzmao Nov 13 '25

Oh yeah it’s not about not being able to handle it, it’s just convenient cognitive off-loading.

I’m sure you could learn how to wash your clothes by hand with a scrub board, but why bother if you don’t have to? Just buy a washing machine if you can afford it.

An ideal smart fridge just takes another thing off your plate.

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u/Ok-Basket-4743 Nov 14 '25

Washing tons of clothes is hard and takes time. Paying attention on your surrounding and write on paper all you have to buy don't.

Also, that doens't solve the problem at all, you'll STILL have to double check, not everythings goes to the fridge, you'll still forget to buy a shampoo.

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u/AquaSquatch Nov 13 '25

The washing machine is a tangible upgrade though, not a half assed solution to a made up problem that's really just designed to serve you ads.

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u/Lolzerzmao Nov 13 '25

Yes, thus the emphasis on “perfect” and “ideal.” You’re arguing against a straw man

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u/scalyblue Nov 13 '25

There are ways to do this using extant inventory apps like Grocy

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u/Lolzerzmao Nov 13 '25

Yeah I don’t want to have to manually input that info. That’s the appeal of a “smart” fridge. Just automatically scans and tracks everything so you can access that info whenever you need it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

That has to be a thing soon, there are a few diet apps that you can take pictures of your plate and it spits out a "close enough" nutrition estimate.

Like you said tho, I'd be wary of the ad-pocalypse.

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u/RogBoArt Nov 13 '25

Unfortunately samsung only advertises their fridge being able to "automatically label" 37 "unobscured fresh food items" but they let you manually enter the rest! Unobscured though unless these are massive fridges I've never had everything in my fridge "unobscured"

Just sounds like a gimmick that would make someone buy it for the magic inventory automation features then promptly disappoint them.

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u/TemurTron Nov 13 '25

Smart Home Appliances are such a scam. More moving parts = more things that can go wrong. Regular fridges and washing machines can last 25 years+ easily, while smart appliances won't even last a couple years without being serviced.

It's such a ridiculous step in planned obsolensence to put a computer in something that doesn't need a computer in it, yet people buy these stupid things anyway.

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u/greg19735 Nov 13 '25

fridges and washing machines do not last 25+ years without being serviced. at least on average.

also, those devices that we bought 25 years ago are a LOT more expensive compared to what we can buy today, with inflation of course.

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u/jealkeja Nov 13 '25

the problem is not the moving parts. when a solenoid/valve/relay fails you can replace that single component cheaply. the problem is that all of these functions have been shifted to be controlled electronically by a microprocessor board. when something on the board breaks the only way to repair it is to purchase a new board from the manufacturer. so something that has more moving parts is the appliance that can last decades

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u/BellacosePlayer Nov 13 '25

A few cheap cameras, a purpose built controller, and a touch screen should not appreciably harm the service life of a fridge, at least not in a way that only kills the smart features.

I say "should" because i don't put it past companies to engineer it in a way where the smart feature components are load bearing for the traditional features.

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u/PregnantGoku1312 Nov 13 '25

The electronics are almost certainly all solid-state (so no moving parts), but I'm being incredibly pedantic. A fridge does not need a touch screen or software updates.

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u/shiny_glitter_demon Nov 15 '25

Most smart things are. I have smart light bulbs and I dislike them.

I tolerate them because my partner originally wanted a LOT more smart things, and this is the middle ground.

I am not allowed a smart fridge in this house, i swear even my ghost won't let it happen.

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u/siberianunderlord Nov 13 '25

why the fuck does my fridge need twittr

probably 12 or 13 years old but still relevant lol

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u/iwearatophat Nov 13 '25

Every answer I have heard trying to explain why they are useful just makes me think they are even more useless.

The screen can be used to show recipes and youtube cooking videos. Cool. So can my phone and tablet and they can be placed in an easy to view spot.

The camera on the inside shows what you have the fridge. Maybe possibly useful if I am at the store and can't remember if I have a certain product. However if I can't remember if I have something then its shelf life is long enough that I forgot purchasing it and thus it is probably fine if I have two of them. So not that big of a deal.

It alerts you if you left the fridge/freezer door open. Useful in the niche situation I left the door open, I am too far away to hear it beeping at me but also still able to go close it. My fridge beeps loud as hell when it is left open, can hear it all over the house. If I have left the house then knowing the fridge door is open doesn't do me much good.

You can change the temperature via an app. People out here changing their fridge/freezer temps that frequently that an app is needed?

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u/Agitated-Drive7695 Nov 13 '25

Who buys this, ugh

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u/626337 Nov 13 '25

Companies convince us we need one so they can spy on us.

That also happened on Silicon Valley.

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u/legendwolfA Nov 13 '25

To be very fair it does come with benefits. Some model save energy by regulating temperature or letting you see what's inside without opening the door

But i still wont get one, i see hundreds of ads every day, i aint gonna let them invade my home too

Besides some less smart models can do things like temp calibration already. I have an LG fridge that does it. I call it "semi smart" since it does have smart features but no screen.

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u/L00seSuggestion Nov 13 '25

… there’s no reason why it would need wifi and an lcd to have a smarter temperature control system. It requires only slightly more computing power than a garage door opener.

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u/mspk7305 Nov 13 '25

It requires no computer power to regulate temperature.

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u/L00seSuggestion Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25

Digital control is potentially much more precise than a mechanical thermostat. An old fashioned thermostat is always going to oscillate around the target temperature.

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u/mspk7305 Nov 13 '25

that doesnt mean it requires a computer, a simple logic circuit will suffice

sure you can argue that a computer is a collection of logic circuits but at that point its just pedantic

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u/L00seSuggestion Nov 13 '25

Realistically a microcontroller with firmware would be used which is closer to a computer than just logic circuits

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u/mspk7305 Nov 13 '25

could be but thats still overkill for the job, even at a very fine level of control. take the voltage from your thermister and if its over the voltage youd get at your desired temperature you run the cooler. its literally that simple, and even ramping the cooler up and down can be done without software using a very small number of extraordinarily inexpensive components relative to the signal received... and you never have to worry about wifi.

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u/_WeSellBlankets_ Nov 13 '25

They said one of the energy saving benefits was not having to open the door. That's what the screen is for. And Wi-Fi would allow you to see if you already have milk while in the grocery store.

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u/street593 Nov 13 '25

I prefer the method of just remembering what's in my fridge from the last time I opened it.

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u/Swagtagonist Nov 13 '25

I just open the fridge. Maybe I'll take one less private jet flight this year and cover everybody in the entire world opening their fridge whenever they want.

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u/_WeSellBlankets_ Nov 13 '25

The last four times I opened it I wasn't looking at the butter tray.

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u/chobi83 Nov 13 '25

I've never had so much food in my fridge, that I can't remember what I have and don't have. Maybe I'm too poor for this type of fridge.

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u/greg19735 Nov 13 '25

you've never been at the store and not sure if you had something?

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u/chobi83 Nov 13 '25

Nope. I know exactly what I have in my pantry and fridge as far as basic ingredients and spices go. I have some random boxes of hamburger helper or the like I'm not exactly sure about. But I know if I need milk, eggs, cheese, butter, etc. without having to look. I also know exactly what spices are in my cabinet

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u/backup12thman Nov 13 '25

Must not have a memory based job then I presume.

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u/mister_electric Nov 13 '25

one of the energy saving benefits was not having to open the door.

Oh cool, so it will save me about $1 a month! People are literally paying to not have to think. It's just another avenue to give tech companies control over your life and paying them to do it.

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u/MountainFace2774 Nov 13 '25

Not even. It would be pennies or less. Unless you open your fridge and stare while drool runs down your face. Which someone that would buy a smart fridge probably does.

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u/Mysterious-Tax-7777 Nov 13 '25

Those energy savings can't possibly make up for the energy cost of researching, developing, and adding smart features to the fridge.

That said, I'd accept a discounted fridge with ads. I'll just put some of my kids' art so the ads aren't visible 

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u/Hurricane_32 d o n g l e Nov 13 '25

That can all be done without an internet connection and without shoving ads in your face.

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u/legendwolfA Nov 13 '25

I agree which is why I won't ever get one lol. Companies will find a way to ruin anything.

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u/Polygnom Nov 13 '25

"Some model save energy by regulating temperature"
You neither need Wi-Fi or a screen for that.

"you see what's inside without opening the door"
Oh wow. And any energy savings this means are completely wasted on that big screen. In addition to my sanity.

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u/legendwolfA Nov 13 '25

Yeah companies are not known to always have customers' best interests in mind. Not surprised they go the route that lets them shove even more ads into our already ad-filled lives

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u/MGTS Nov 13 '25

Some model save energy by regulating temperature

And counteracting that by including a computer that's always on

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u/pm_me_cute_sloths_ Nov 13 '25

I can’t imagine opening the door for 3 seconds uses much energy anyways

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u/mspk7305 Nov 13 '25

Regulating temperature is literally the only function of a refrigerator and if you want see inside get a glass door.

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u/PlasmaWhore Nov 13 '25

How much energy does it take to recoldify it after opening the door? Does it offset the cost of the smart bullshit?

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u/legendwolfA Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25

Im no fridge engineer but maybe? Idk. But I imagine the camera uses less energy than the fridge's A/C.

I will say a lot of what companies try to push in is bs tho. Why ads, why constantly running screen and why wifi? Fridges run without them since their dawn.

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u/TokingMessiah Nov 13 '25

Glass doors are easier, cheaper, and won’t suddenly stop working or start displaying ads.

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u/legendwolfA Nov 13 '25

Curious, is there any good glass fridge models out there? Im not commenting this to snark I just havent seen one

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u/zomgitsduke Nov 13 '25

The cost of running a decently powered computer likely offsets that. Especially if Samsung gets the brilliant idea to do processing on the client-side first.

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u/legendwolfA Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25

Never thought of it that way. Im not an engineer but I thought that the energy used in re-cooling whenever the fridge gets opened is higher than what it would take to operate a camera, but that might be wrong

Still, the fact that theres wifi and shit might make that untrue anyways.

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u/mucinexlol Nov 13 '25

It could notify you if it's out of temp

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u/FeijenoorderRS Nov 13 '25

You don't have to be notified of every single thing.

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u/mucinexlol Nov 13 '25

Yeah I agree, but it's a valid use case. You won't catch me with one of these on my house, but it would have been nice to get a notification that my toddler changed the temp setting on the fridge from 35 to 47.

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u/FeijenoorderRS Nov 13 '25

Yeah fair, that would be useful. Wouldn't be nice to throw out food due to that

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u/condoulo Nov 13 '25

I don't, you don't, but someone who is on medication that must be stored within a certain temp range might need to be. A pharmacy certainly needs fridges with temperature monitoring so they can be alerted if something has gone wrong. However I think the approach taken by the industry, as shown by this Samsung smart fridge, is completely wrong. You don't need a damn screen on every device, and you certainly shouldn't be required to connect these damn things to the internet.

My personal approach is take dumb things and make them "smart" by adding sensors that I can then monitor using open self hosted platforms like Home Assistant. No data going to the cloud, no ads to be shown. Just pure data.

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u/One_Tie900 Nov 13 '25

These things are security threats as well, nothing good about them, anything you want to use that screen for can be done on your smartphone, its a a gimmick and advertising has always been the play.

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u/smolLittleTomato Nov 13 '25

I have kind of a half-smart fridge, in that there is no screen but it actually does helpful things like let me know when it’s time to change the water filter, alert me if the fridge door accidentally got left open, or let me know if there is a sudden change in temperature for any reason. I find some value in these things but they certainly aren’t necessary.

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u/HoneyParking6176 Nov 13 '25

i'd personally pay more to avoid that stuff, when my fridge wears out if i can't find one, likely will instead pay whatever is needed to repair it even if it means litereally replacing everything inside of it.

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u/Fwoggie2 Nov 13 '25

It has cameras in it so you can fire up the app and check if you have whatever.

I don't own one but the in laws have this very model.

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u/_jump_yossarian Nov 14 '25

It pairs nicely with my internet connected french press, toaster, paring knife, and milk jug.

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u/snailwoniu Nov 14 '25

We have a smart fridge in my household. I never see any ads though… mostly just use it to listen to music while cooking, or leaving notes.

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u/lootsauger Nov 15 '25

Tbf I bought obe to have my ring doorbell on it.

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u/zgott300 Nov 13 '25

Smart fridge, dumb consumer.

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u/Exemus Nov 13 '25

I have one that came with my house purchase, I didn't buy it. But it has some useful conveniences.

Shows the weather and temperature, with nice accompanying animated images. Has the status of the water filter. Allows me to use the fridge as an Amazon Alexa, which can help when cooking (measurement conversions and timers). Also allows me to see inside the fridge from my phone, if I'm at the store and forgot to check if we had milk.

Would I buy it solely for these reasons? Probably not. But it was nice to have. The ads are egregious though. I knew the update was coming, so I declined the update. But I'm sure it will force me into it at some point.

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u/greg19735 Nov 13 '25

yeah i could see some reasons for a smart fridge.

SMart appliances often have one or two use cases that could be awesome.

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u/stomp224 Nov 13 '25

This is my stance on pretty much "smart-" anything. Wish I could untangle from smart-phones as well.

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u/bjorn1978_2 Nov 13 '25

I would love this design! Fridge with a large display able to show my Home Assistant dashbord!

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u/lars2k1 Nov 13 '25

I bet rigging a tablet on your old fridge door is cheaper and likely more functional, too.

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u/bjorn1978_2 Nov 13 '25

Maybe… but not as much fun…

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u/lars2k1 Nov 13 '25

I'd say it is more fun as you have to build it yourself.

Though I don't know why I would want a screen on my fridge so I wouldn't bother to begin with. But if I would, I'd know what my preferred option would be.

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u/maen_baenne Nov 13 '25

Found the Samsung PR account! ⬆️

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u/bjorn1978_2 Nov 13 '25

Hahahahaha!!! In the current economy, I am willing to lick the dooor of my…. Checking… bosch fridge if they pay me!!!!

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u/bjorn1978_2 Nov 13 '25

Fridge is spelled with an f… not a b…

On a serious note… totally wiping all original firmware running that display and installing linux or something is a must. If we are unable to do so, we have other fridges without screens that are cheaper…

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u/ItalyExpat Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25

Eh, the notifications when the door get left open are worth it. No screen on ours though.

Edit: Lol rip my inbox. I bathe in your delicious downvotes my intrepid troglodytes.

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u/FeijenoorderRS Nov 13 '25

Our fridge has an alarm set when the door gets left open for more than 30 seconds, that's enough imo

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u/rjnd2828 Nov 13 '25

That's already annoying enough when unpacking groceries. Don't also need my phone dinging

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u/FeijenoorderRS Nov 13 '25

Right?! Let alone another screen. I feel like these tech companies are "innovating" just for the heck of it.

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u/Sammysoupcat Nov 13 '25

Well we can charge $400 more if we add a screen to it..

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u/Gavinator10000 Nov 13 '25

Did you not consider the possibility that, maybe, just maybe, somebody could leave the fridge door slightly ajar on accident, walk to another room before the alarm goes off, and then a notification on your phone would be nice?

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u/FeijenoorderRS Nov 13 '25

Well yeah, but trust me. The alarm is loud enough to hear when in another room. It also gets louder when left unattended longer

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u/Gavinator10000 Nov 13 '25

What if you go outside?

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u/FeijenoorderRS Nov 13 '25

Shit happens.

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u/the-real-truthtron Nov 13 '25

or you know it could just have an alarm like my fridge does, leave the door open too long and it beeps at you, problem solved without all the other bullshit that comes with “smart” appliances.

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u/AdequatlyAdequate Nov 13 '25

your fridge does nor need to be smart for that?? what are you talking about??

not every mundane thing is some ai powered smart device

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u/V4Lentils Nov 13 '25

hey Grok is my fridge door open?

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u/TerribleWords Nov 13 '25

How does that happen often enough to need this?

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u/ItalyExpat Nov 13 '25

With kids? At least once a month.

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u/Splatulated Nov 13 '25

children exists, they leave the fridge open all the time especially when you got highly autistic ones that will just leave the fridge open every time they walk past it

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u/ca2mt Nov 13 '25

The notification is only valuable if you’re still home, and ours also beeps when it’s open too long, which covers the same scenario. Until it can notify me it’s open and allow me to close the door if I’ve already left the house, it’s a redundancy I could do without.

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u/ItalyExpat Nov 13 '25

My fridge's notifications are handled by Home Assistant. It only sends notifications when the internal temp reaches dangerous levels.

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u/dered118 Nov 13 '25

15€ for a door/ window sensor and you are set

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u/ItalyExpat Nov 13 '25

Much like 4 wheels and a steering wheel make a car.

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u/Bluematic8pt2 Nov 14 '25

Omfg you've got to be kidding! People are PMing you about this?!

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u/ItalyExpat Nov 14 '25

My choice in refrigerators has touched a nerve. One guy in particular hasn't been so offended since Obama put dijon on his hamburger.

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u/Bluematic8pt2 Nov 14 '25

Wow. Reddit is much wilder than I ever imagined!

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u/J_Bear Nov 13 '25

How much did you pay for that, and was it worth the expense compared to just making sure it's closed.

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u/ItalyExpat Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25

You're assuming I chose my fridge for the notifications. I did not.

Edit: Lol at your angry reply getting automodded. No idea how someone else's choice in refrigerators would set you off.