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Because the fridge company can make more money by displaying ads on your fridge, and consumers can save more money by buying the fridge with the ads and taping cardboard in front.

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any instances of this in the wild? it seems like fridges are pretty cheap anyway and ones with smart features are more expensive? i don't think this a tv-like scenario.

It's apparently common enough for funny things like this to happen.

https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/1ow6cpu/appa...

https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1pi2ax1/woman_...

https://archive.ph/U3CVN

Cant manage to get an archive link for the second one.

Does anyone know of an xcancel like service but for Reddit? OP links just lead to a login page.

Redlib works. Either self host or use a public instance: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib#instances

They now require login for old.reddit.com. You can remove the subdomain and access the modern JS laden slop without an account unless they deem it 'Adult Content'

Reddit now requires login. What are these?

There was a fake story that went viral last year about a woman being sent to the psych ward after seeing the Pluribus ads on her Samsung fridge.

The ads were real though: https://ibb.co/5hbG7ymS

Have any data that the savings are passed on to the consumer? I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't see any modern, late-stage capitalism companies doing anything that actually benefits the consumer.

They aren’t. The smart features are more expensive to make and the added features justify a higher price. Most people don’t care either way and will buy it when they see a discount and feel like they got a good deal.

My parents are of the generation where they put a TV in every room and just keep it on 24/7 news all day long. They don’t understand a world without ads and certainly don’t go out of their way to avoid them

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