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I swore off Sony when my TV got an update to add advertising to the volume slider on the screen, which was the last straw. Weirdly enough, I replaced it with a Samsung, which appears to have ads if configured into any North American country, but if you select any GDPR-included territory, the ads don't appear at all

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Thank you Europeans for the GDPR law. The need to click to accept cookies in each site looks like a useless bureaucracy, but now we see the real advantages of the law.

And in theory GDPR should reduce the number of cookie warnings, because it makes it much clearer what can be opt-out.

Thank God for GDPR, then. My Samsung smart TV hasn't shown me any ads yet. Except in the Youtube app I think, but that's probably not Samsung's fault.

Serious question, has having a smart fridge really helped you in any meaningful way? I'm not sure if I'm just missing something because I've never owned one but they seem useless.

I had one. It was junk. Terrible touchscreen, rebooting several times a day, no compelling reason to even use it. I use a tablet on the counter for recipes and music, much more efficient and a better system.

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