I was quite shocked when it became obvious the someone with money loved reading and seeing advertisement. They thought it was product information. Banners needed only to be vaguely appealing for them to purchase it. This behavior was further rewarded by companies sending "sample" products like, here are all 12 of our 100 euro per bottle shampoos, we hope you like them.
There are two aspects to advertising, there's fact and there's opinion. As long as you understand the opinion is biased, the facts can be useful. If a new pizza place opens in my town I'd at least like to know it exists, or else I might stagnate going to only the familiar places.
It's still annoying and it's unacceptable for my fridge to have a screen I can't control the content of.
>It's still annoying and it's unacceptable for my fridge to have a screen I can't control the content of.
Also, and more importantly IMO, is the risk of the fridge getting hacked. I really don't want to have to worry about keeping my fridge updated, and having to throw it out after 7 years or whenever support ends.
