Neil Freiman

I mean, I bet a bunch of people listening to you, to us right now, are like, I have no idea this is happening.

If you go to Silicon Valley, it's a different story.

I think everyone is setting up their AI agents, but you also have set up your own OpenClaw.

What has that experience been like?

Moving on.

People are putting ad blockers on their refrigerators.

One more time because I couldn't believe it myself.

Some people are putting ad blockers, you know, the kind you use on websites, on their refrigerators and appliance to keep food cold.

As the Wall Street Journal reported, it's what some homeowners are resorting to after their Samsung smart refrigerators began displaying advertisements on screens, and many are quite upset about it.

Last fall, Samsung began a pilot program to explore ads on its smart refrigerators sold in the United States.

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.