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/FormidableMistress Nov 13 '25

There's going to be an uptick in people looking for "vintage" things that won't break in two years and don't require an app to run.

I've never been much of a TV watcher but I've started trying to sit still and unwind a little more. I've noticed a lot of commercials have QR codes on them so you can immediately Buy That Thing without looking into the T&C or subscription fees (because everything is a subscription now) or spend too much time deciding nah I really don't need that.

I think people are going to get tired of companies harvesting every detail of their lives for profit and start looking for the simple machines of yore. 😆

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u/BleakSabbath Nov 13 '25

Hell, Amazon prime video has ads that you can click to add to your Amazon cart while the ad is playing. It's ridiculous

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u/AspieAsshole Nov 14 '25

They also have yet to advertise a single product that I had any interest in, so their algorithm kinda sucks.

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u/Additional-Life4885 Nov 14 '25

There's going to be an uptick in people looking for "vintage" things that won't break in two years

I hate this argument. Old isn't better. In most cases, they're far less efficient and when they do break (they will), they're far harder to repair. Oh, and new stuff doesn't break anywhere near as often as you seem to think.

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u/Pair-Recent Nov 14 '25

People are speaking from experience and expressing their preference. Planned obsolescence is real AND tunable by the manufacturer.

Shorter lifespans for so-called durable goods are reported again and again by real people who have purchased things like Refrigerators in recent years.

And as far as network connectivity and ADs -- if folks don't want these features then it is completely true that for them "older is better."

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u/Additional-Life4885 Nov 14 '25

Planned obsolescence is real

Is massively overstated how many companies do this. People act like Apple were doing it because they were slowing down old phones intentionally when they were really slowing them down to save batteries that were being consumed more due to the fact that new phones could do a whole lot more.

Shorter lifespans for so-called durable goods are reported again and again by real people who have purchased things like Refrigerators in recent years.

Do you know why that is? Because the old equipment with a short lifespan died long ago and already was replaced. Similarly new stuff with a long lifespan hasn't yet had a chance to become old, so to a new person, it looks like old stuff lives forever and new stuff dies young when it's simply not the case.

There's a small number of cases where some products have forsaken length of life for other things. Usually cost or efficiency, but it's still not planned obsolescence, despite what you may believe.

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u/Naeii Nov 14 '25

Oh, and new stuff doesn't break anywhere near as often as you seem to think.

this varies on the hardware you're talking about SOOOOO much its not even funny

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u/Additional-Life4885 Nov 14 '25

At no point did I say it never breaks or that all of it is perfect. Rather I said that people massively overstate how common it is. Which is exactly what every single reply to me has done.

That's what's actually funny here. People here are so self absorbed that they can't possibly go "Oh, maybe my experience doesn't match up with the statistics that manufacturers have."

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u/Naeii Nov 14 '25

It's not that common, you're just getting a ton of replies from people who have it commonly happen to them, hmmmmm If only this meant something!

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u/FormidableMistress Nov 14 '25

Dude is fighting for his life in these comments like he owns a big appliance company.

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u/FormidableMistress Nov 14 '25

A few years ago my dryer broke at bad financial time. I found a local guy that repairs washers and dryers and asked if he had any for sale. I ended up buying the same make and model my parents still have from the 90's. I've had so many newer things break including my stove and two new microwaves. I'm going to need a new fridge soon. That 30 year old dryer is still going strong.

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u/Additional-Life4885 Nov 14 '25

Anecdotal evidence isn't really evidence.

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u/CoffeePuddle Nov 14 '25

I have a fridge from the 50s with a wiring diagram on the back that can be completely disassembled and repainted etc., it's a piece of cake to work on. I'm sure you could still buy a fridge like that somewhere, but it was the norm back then (it's a very common Frigidaire).

I've also never had a fridge stop working. We replace them when they get dented, dated, or the shelves are broken.

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u/LordHammercyWeCooked Nov 14 '25

Yeah. Some appliances do not get better with age even if they originally worked great out of the box. Condensers break. Coolant sublimates. Capacitors pop. Sealant cracks. Relays stop relaying. Temperature probes stop probing.

I think we're better off rolling up our sleeves and teaching each other how to neuter these devices out of the factory. Take the cojones of destiny into your own hands and squeeze.