If your home is your temple—the last place where you can escape the blasted outside landscape of billboards, screen ads, bus ads, train ads, and TV ads—know that the Mongol horde of advertising is looking to break down your fortress walls. Samsung’s new agenda for its smart home includes sticking ads into its ultra-expensive refrigerators with screens. Don’t worry, you can dismiss some of those ads, but the only way to get rid of them completely is to disconnect your fridge from the internet.

Android Authority first spotted changes in the latest firmware update that is pushing ads to some users as part of a “pilot program.” Samsung told the site that ads would appear on “certain Family Hub refrigerator cover screens” when the fridge is idle. Users will be able to dismiss the ads, and the

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