True, won't be a problem for this use case though

There's only so many billionaires, with so many organs, a lot of those organs will be trash, so you could definitely count how many lives could be saved.

I think maybe we need legislation that you can't outright lie in advertising.

So long as it's wifi yeah, everyone can hear everything on wifi when your in range

If your freezer is on your local wifi and your computer is also on the local wifi you should be able to see all the packets it is transmitting over the wifi with Wireshark on your computer. If either your computer or freezer has a hard connection then you'll need a little more trickery as switches/home routers minimise network congestion by directing traffic to specific MAC addresses as required.

Assuming you are all wifi, basically you load Wireshark (is free software, easily downloaded) and tell it to capture all packets from your wifi adaptor (there should be a handy option on the initial screen when you load the application). Once you start capturing you'll be capturing everything on your wifi so it pays to be quick with what you want to achieve to minimise the data.

So, once you start capturing you open your fridge door a few times, leave it open till it beeps, maybe do that twice, then stop capturing. Following that you will just need to filter the capture by all packets from your fridges network IP or MAC (you should be able to find these from your home router). Once you have all the packets you should be able to click on them and expand all the details to see what data they are sending and where it's being sent to. You should also see all the packets coming back from the vendor.

Have you captured the data with Wireshark to see if it's readable? Could you have adguard/pihole/etc spoof the target DNS to a local server that then strips the data out of the packets and forwards them on to your homeassistant? Or have they garbled the information with some proprietary nonsense?

No, it should definitely not need to talk to Samsung to share basic information with your homeassistant

Can't it just beep?

That sounds like filthy poor talk to me ..

The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia

-- Actual quote by an Australian conservative prime minister in this century

It's more that the punters think we are giving away but actually the cost is worked into price increases on the products they have to buy to get the bootstraps. They don't notice the increases because they get the bootstraps. The cost of producing the bootstraps is so low that technically the stores turn a profit on them.

Sounds like boots are unnecessary, you just need the straps, maybe we can give minimum wage works a free pair of boot straps whenever the spend $100 or more at a few party approved corporate chains ..