Neil Freiman

The goal, according to the company, was to test whether contextual, non-personal ads for things relevant to housework would be useful to people.

Months into the pilot, which has served up ads intermittently on some fridges, Samsung said the turn-off rate — yes, you can turn off the ads — was low in the single digits.

But the smart fridge owners the journal talked to didn't share that view.

They said the ads were intrusive and violated perhaps the one last place in American life that had been off-limits to ads —

the kitchen.

Furthermore, they felt like they got ripped off by the price of the refrigerators, which cost well over $1,000.

If the fridges had been sold for a discount, they said maybe you could probably tolerate some ads, but these appliances came in at a full premium price.

And finally, yes, one owner told the journal that they made sure their home router's ad blocking software extended to his fridge.

It worked.

It's just amazing how much we're bombarded with ads every day.

There was a study back in 2023.

So in 1970s, American went from seeing 500 advertisements per day to over 5,000.

in 2023 and now they're invading our kitchen they're in our ubers i mean ads are pretty pretty much everywhere it's something that we've come accustomed to what i thought was interesting is that you you want to accept a discount if you're going to see ads so netflix rolled out this ad tier and people have happily paid up for it they know that there is a sort of bargain at play where i'm going to pay six seven dollars for netflix a month but i also i will see ads when you're paying the full price i think for something like a samsung refrigerator when you weren't really expecting ads in the first place that's what really frustrates you

Neil, feel my bicep.

I should not have to say no to this every day, Toby.

Because I can read, Toby, and I can see they're made with real whole food ingredients, 25 grams of protein, 10 grams of collagen, and functional mushrooms.

Yes, I'm the one who originally told you that.

And you can read all about it too at shopflavcity.com.

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