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Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like (www.theverge.com)

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Samsung warned us last month that ads were coming to the giant Android tablets embedded in its Family Hub smart fridges. I've been eyeing mine ever since — and the first ones are about to arrive. Starting November 3rd, the $2,000-plus connected fridges will get a new widget that serves up ads, Shane Higby, head of Home Appliance Business at Samsung Electronics America, confirmed to The Verge.

The ads will be part of a new widget on some of the smart fridges' "Cover screen themes" (like a tablet or smartphone's home screen). The widget, which Samsung shared with me ahead of today's announcement, has four rotating screens. One showing news, one calendar events, one the weather forecast, and one with "curated advertisements."

This widget appears at the bottom of the fridge's screen and rotates every 10 seconds among the four screens. You can swipe to rotate through them faster. Samsung says the widget will only appear on the Weather and Color theme screens, not on the Art or Album ones. A new Daily Board screen also won't have the widget, but it will show an ad in one of the six tiles.

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[–] Sandbar_Trekker@lemmy.today 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can you clarify what you mean?

This movement is all about giving consumers more power and reforming section 1201 of the DMCA.

Louis Rossmann is big on consumer rights and the freedom to repair movement.

Did you mean to reply to someone else?

[–] Nils@piefed.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There was some drama about FUTO here a few days ago, on the sense they were promoting fascism and using Rossmann credentials to validate it.

If I am not mistaken, this is one of the articles shared. https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html

I think the user before mistook FULU with FUTO. Not sure. I cannot see any redflags on the FULU website, they do not see to be the same people. https://fulu.org/our-team

[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Rossman has major right-libertarian incel vibes plus anyone hanging out on Odysee is way too comfortable endorsing a Nazi bar tbh

[–] tuhriel@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 days ago

These sound a lot like "trust me bro, he's bad" arguments

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He literally put out a video not that long ago praising three democratic legislators for proposing a right to repair bill. Weird impression.

[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

right, and Graham Platner the Nazi tattoo guy isn't running as a Democrat rn because one would think that would be automatically disqualifying, and yet...

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 5 points 2 days ago

Graham Platner isn't an elected official, nor are any of the three legislators named Graham Platner, nor are any of Louis Rossman's other names Graham Platner.

Please, if you're going to troll, make a better attempt at it. Or even better, take it somewhere else.

[–] megopie@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He put out a video a few weeks back basically endorsing Mamdani.

[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 days ago

again, that video is for gullible people to overlook the rumors of Rossmann being on Kiwifarms. I don't trust white men like him who hang out at Nazi bars