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Refrigerators have DRM on them, To force you to buy $50 water filters or it won't dispense water (www.youtube.com)
submitted 5 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/videos@lemmy.world
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[–] QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

For anyone with one of these GE fridges. If you read the fine print in the owner's manual, they will send you a bypass plug for free (just once) if you call and ask for one. You will need to provide the serial number of the fridge.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What is the bypass plug? Does it contain an RFID chip or can these be mass produced?

[–] QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Super late reply, but for anyone else coming across this thread later:

The bypass plug allows you to bypass the normal filter in your fridge and hook it up to an external filter.

It does contain an RFID chip.

[–] artifex@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Damn. TIL.