I don't get how that gets through the usual meetings and there's no sense of "people won't like this, they will associate our products with obtrusive ads".
Ever turned on a Samsung TV?
Government regulation is the only way to stop this.
There is no such thing, every big corporation adds greedier and greedier practices over time.
I currently have a Samsung fridge/freezer and a delonghi espresso machine in the list in nmcli dev wifi.
My friend has recently moved and bought a new Samsung fridge/freezer for her new home.
I did a quick wifi scan on my phone and there it was. The new samsung fridge/freezer waiting to be connected to the internet via the app you have to download.
It works fine without connecting to the internet.
I told her not to install the app or connect it. So she hasn't.
Maybe in the future, if you are obese, or struggle with food, the manufacturers will be able to monitor the contents of your fridge, how often the door was opened, how much food is eaten, take a quick photo of you each time you open the fridge to monitor your weight, and, if it has become a problem, lock the fridge so you cant eat any more food.
The fridge then contacts all the local fast food restaurants and supermarkets you use, to prevent you from buying any more food until you lose a few pounds.
The new wegovy-ai-fridge.
cool!
That may be how it works in other countries, but I can assure you in America, it will target ads towards those things you consume the most and related items so you consume more.
Where’s the money in that? They’ll tell them to bombard you with weight loss adverts for expensive products that don’t work well or at least require you to keep buying them for life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj2bZCwJeVc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foT2kCByOgs
> soon toilets will be photographing your butt to fingerprint your anus, while data brokers sells your poop data
Life imitates art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
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What if they develop an iconic fridge and dial up the brand recognition to 11 via an intensive and prolonged ad campaign.
Introducing...
The KAGE
After the dust has settled, they push the ad update remotely.
You don't connect your fridge to the internet, like some kind of Luddite?
No worries, they thought of that and bundled a sim card with it.
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There isn't really a good reason for appliances to be online-capable and in some cases it puts homes at risk. If you have that and like it, cool - good for you, but that's "innovation" for the sake of having a reason to sell a new product... a product that can be hacked to break or shutdown via a firmware update.
In other words, advertising is a form of mind control. By hijacking your attention, it hijacks how you think about the world and changes what sorts of things you focus on every day, pulling your mental cycles into products when maybe without seeing that ad you'd instead be thinking about family.
I really think the social and societal cost of advertising is immense, and that it should be strongly regulated. Especially because most people greatly under-value their own attention and under-estimate how much seeing ads in their kitchen every day is going to disrupt and hijack their normal thinking patterns.
gnabgib•2h ago