Idk if this is the right instance for this, but how fucking tired of these forced ads at gas pumps is everyone else?
I’m paying 4 bucks a gallon to have you shove advertising down my throat like an erect cock?
What the actual fuck
Anyone have any good ad blocking practices for this?
I’ve seen duct or painters tape covering the speakers…
You can press a button next to the screen to mute it, but this doesn’t work at all gas stations. (Usually its the 2nd from the top on the right side)
I guess its just time to gettoblast music every time I pump gas like back when I was 19…
One of my most upvoted comments on here is saying I should be legally allowed to smash those screens if they play ads.
I don’t need advertisements shoved in my face every second of every day.
Except you’re a slave in the capitalistic machine like the rest of us so fuck you. /s
Yes, that would be nice if it were legal, but its not.
Tell that to my mask and hammer
I hope you cover your license plate too lol
I’ll take my lamborfeeties
Is this a thing in Canada yet? Thankfully have never seen it here.
I haven’t encountered it. Maybe we’re lucky and some law prevents it? I find it hard to believe they wouldn’t exploit us further if there wasn’t something stopping them.
I’m just going to leave this here.
A gentleman and a scholar
I was really hoping this was for fuel pumps, but the bus stop ads are great, too.
Holly. Didn’t even know such a thing existed. They’re taking ads everywhere
The majority of pumps in my area play ads. Some of the pumps can’t be muted. For those, press the top left and right buttons, then next two down, then the next two and it throws it into maintenance mode. That shuts off the speaker.
I actually don’t care here lol. It scares me when it makes noise but I just play with my phone anyways.
I wouldn’t condone vandalism or anything like that here.
Big city problems. This is why I love living in the sticks
I don’t live in a big city, by any stretch - but I guess it’s not the sticks, because we have that shit around here. And not just the busiest gas stations, by the highway. I hate it.
I’m not sure when you live but I’ve only ever seen that crap in big cities
We need to start a movement to show people different ways to vandalize them without being caught, and print stickers to stick on them to show the reasoning behind the vandalosm
Even better:
Start a movement to build robust cycling infrastructure.
A few more people would probably use bikes, but I don’t see how this solves the issue, no matter how good the cycling infrastructure we won’t see cars and gas stations just disappear. I suspect I don’t see the goals as you intend them, but I don’t see people dropping there kids off at school on bikes or biking to and from a restaurant to eat a steak dinner, not to mention city services and transportation. If your target is really emissions I’d suspect that electric cars and limiting private jets would make more progress.
They’ll start putting ads in the bike lanes
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Just you wait. You’ll see “This bike lane brought to you by Chevrolet” in under a decade.
There is some artist who uses this kind of “road sticker” that is damn near impossible to remove. All that artist does is put a little sticker down of a stylized humanoid form, but that sticker on a fuel pump would probably withstand weather and attempts to remove it.
Any more info would be appreciated
Finally a good use of the “I did that” Biden stickers.
lol!
I’m hoping this will never be the practice in Germany! We’re using these gas pumps with LC Displays from the 80’s so there can’t be apps with ads on a screen. Also known as “German Digitization”. (A buzz word for modern technology /sarc)
Please don’t tell it to European oil concerns to update their gas pumps. Shhhhh 🤫I want to have it without ads 'til I’m to old to use a gas pump.
Buy a modern electric vehicle. You can charge at home on your own plug.
And then my car started displaying ads for subscription services.
Okay, I took that personally, documented it and filed a complaint with the KBA as this started to become a security issue, can’t have the navmap disappear in the middle of a busy intersection. And then that shit stopped again. And as soon as the car is out of warranty, the USB connection to the data modem gets disconnected. I’m lucky enough that that’s still a possibility, but if it weren’t, 🤷
I want to brainstorm this. I know about the mute button, but it doesn’t work on all pumps. So, how are the pumps getting the ads (getting updated ads)? Are they connected to the internet? Bluetooth? Flash Drive firmware updates?
When we figure this out, the next step is to hack that source.
A quick search for trying to get an ad onto a pump led to this site. Pumps are not all the same, some are uploaded via wired or wireless network. Some via USB. If you want to be a solution, try to be the problem and then work your way backwards.
https://www.lcdtvenclosure.com/affordable-gas-station-digital-signage
id take the ads over the 20 questions it asks you before you can even select the fuel grade. and the button barely works so i have to press it 20 times
Just tried the “2nd button from the top” on both right and left at Wesco (Michigan) - didn’t work.
On the pumps in my area the mute button is usually the second one from the bottom and it may be on either side. I don’t care to watch them while I wait for my 40 gallon tank to fill but if I’m just topping off, I don’t bother to mute, I wont be there long. I also grew up before skippable ads and watched Over-The-Air TV where you couldn’t skip them. That’s why there is still a format where an hour long show is actually 44-46 minute and a 30 minute show is around 22 minute runtimes on streaming services. Those commercial breaks were a speed contest to see if you could grab a snack, use the bathroom, or get a cup of coffee before the show came back on.
Jokes on them, I start the pump and walk inside to get a drink/snack. By the time I get back I’m done pumping.
i love paying $5 for a small bag of combos that isnt as big as it used to be
thats what they want you to do…
Anyone have any good ad blocking practices for this?
Don’t buy gas from places that do this. Hasn’t failed me yet and if more people did it maybe they’ll stop.
They’d just blame millennials for ruining buying gas and double down on the ads.
More that I don’t know of a single gas station without ads
Yup. The “free” market says that if everyone does the same shit, you have no choice, and they still make more money.
If a company’s being smart, deviating from the universal enshittification will earn them market share.
They will get the market share of us few weirdos who haven’t just accepted this shit. They will lose out on advertising revenue, have to charge more for gas, and will go out of business.
As you are able I’d highly recommend going electric. Then you don’t even have to go to gas stations. If you’re able to charge at home (which I’m aware many are not) it’s even better because anytime you leave the house you can have a full tank.
I have an electric car and the result is a loss of 20% of my income in the form of time spent twiddling my thumbs while the thinks slowly accumulates charge.
What job do you do where you can only charge it during work hours, yet the 30 minutes it takes to charge account for 20% of that work time?
A made up job!
