[midasuni]

“You are missing Evards brand milk, buy Evards for that fresh taste, I’ve added it to your list for you”

Any potential benefit from such a device would be destroyed by the cancerous advertising industry.

[arter4]

Exactly. This would turn a fridge into yet another thing serving ads. No thanks.

[Liftyee]

This is why we can't have nice things. Any new technology is instantly leveraged to shove ads down people's throats and get them to buy more things they don't need.

[mewpmewp2]

There would be alternative market for ads free for sure or open source alternatives where you could connect with your own selected LLMs.

[thfuran]

Like how there's an alternative market for dumb tvs, except they're more expensive and have worse screens?

[mewpmewp2]

TVs are a different type of product than a fridge though. With fridge once you have the basics covered you can be set.

[TeMPOraL]

So is the case with washing machines, but here we are.

[thfuran]

I'm not sure what you mean.

[4RealFreedom]

And major brands would force you to pay a fee to disable advertising.

[mewpmewp2]

To me paying to disable ads is a fair deal.

[thfuran]

I think that if the manufacturer is going to continue using the appliance for their own business purposes, they shouldn't be permitted to describe the transaction that causes you to possess it as a "sale", because you don't own it free and clear.

[mewpmewp2]

I don't get why it matters so much to people. It's all just incentives aligning and how the deals work. Having a subscription can actually be beneficial in terms of incentive to keep up supporting the product in my view.

If it's a huge problem psychologically for you, maybe you can just take the following 5 years or whatever time you estimate you will be using the product and calculate that into the base price to make your decision.