Hate smart home ads? Stop buying stuff that doesn’t need a screen

Ah, victim blaming! That always goes over well, right? This past week, smart home users have been up in arms over the discovery that Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerators are being updated to start showing advertisements on their Cover Screen displays. In a statement defending the move, Samsung frames the addition as “enhancing every day [sic] value” for its customers, but it’s extremely difficult to view this as benefiting anyone other than Samsung and its advertising partners.

Granted, worse…