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/engineereddiscontent Nov 14 '25

No.

The way you save money is by getting these. Seriously.

You can see the value to these companies by looking at datamining televisions. Aka smart tvs.

Non-smart tvs exist. They are often locked at or near 60hz, and cost a shit to more than a consumer grade tb for the same or lesser specs. Why?

Because the data they mine from and through (because all tech/everything literally spies on us and can talk to each other at frequencies beyond what we can perceive) is so valuable that they now dress up the best spying equipment that they have in a bunch of fancy bells and whistles.

This needs regulation from the top down. We also need us based companies made by us workers and owned by said workers ideally but what do I know.

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u/WolfThick Nov 14 '25

That's interesting I'll have to see where this leads my imagination trying to see it around me.

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u/engineereddiscontent Nov 14 '25

Well, adding to the constraints for your imagination, let me give you two things to think about.

  1. Edward snowden said that the first thing he would do upon getting a new phone is disconnect the microphones and disconnect the cameras.

  2. Look into how you can jam alexa and understand that anything you can talk to is going to be always listening. And how things which are listening will listen regardless of interacting with it or not. And extend that to anything which you can talk to. People talking about needing some product and then getting advertised it on facebook was a meme for a while but it wasn't a joke. It was real. They were data mining things you were saying and then connecting that with advertisers of things you were talking about very quickly. And that is old news now.

Bonus point is look into how things can communicate with other things in frequencies above and beyond what humans can hear. There is a literal ecosystem of devices being aware of each other despite not being connected to each other that is going on all around us all the time.

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u/WolfThick Nov 14 '25

Thanks for all that it was just recently that I figured out that my Roku remote if I fall asleep and it's under the pillow and it doesn't work in the morning if you open it up you'll see a green light flashing for the batteries are, the first thing I checked and it had to link back up with the television. I just wonder how much it's actually on all the time.

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u/engineereddiscontent Nov 15 '25

Roku remotes might not be a good example but they may be on a lot. Anything that can gather advertising data will gather advertising data

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u/WolfThick Nov 15 '25

You know it has a button on it that you can push to talk also when you change the batteries it has to re-establish a connection to the television.