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…
This is one of those American absurdities that thankfully hasn’t made its way over to Europe yet, at least to my knowledge. I hope I have an electric car by the point they start introducing these here.
In Finland our equivalence to Wal-Mart also sells cheap gas and they have ads on their pumps advertising their own products but it’s just on the display and there’s no sound with it.
That is how it started here. Then they got loud.
And now when I get gas I gotta listen to them hawk some shitty podcast from a washed up morning host. No! I don’t want to know about Hoda Kotb, I just want gas!
Would be nice if the gas was less expensive at the stores with ads. At least that’s not the case in my area. 5 min down the road the same company has pumps without ads for the same price.
You’d think it should be less expensive.
But then you’re not thinking of increasing shareholder value.
How dare you!
What’s our equivalent to Wal-Mart?
Kärkkäinen
Huh. I never thought of them as that big or widespread. Might be that it’s not very big here in the south.
Well yeah they aren’t but visiting their store in my home town is the closest thing to visiting Wal-Mart that I can think of. Even the customers look like rednecks.
Oh yes they tried. The damn thing scared me when that ad started playing. I haven’t been back at that station again. Some other stations do have ads playing but those are silent, so I guess they do learn customers don’t like the loud ads.
Huh, I guess living in a small town with gas stations that have had the exact same pumps for many decades has its perks.
Yeah, I’ve only seen these near big cities and major highways.
They’re all over West Virginia which is pretty much nothing but small towns.
Find the old gas station
We’ve got some in the UK, like this one at the Shell petrol station at S60 5ND (pic from Oogle Gearth)
Is that a scale so you can weigh your gas?
“Place your GASOLINE in the tank”
Took me a minute but when I heard it I can’t unhear it.
A shell in Australia is the only place i’ve seen this as well. They will not be getting our custom.
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I’ve been driving an EV for a few years, but I flew out of state and had to rent a car recently. I’d never experienced this before then. It was one of the most dystopian experiences ever, leaving me feeling dirty and used.
I don’t think I could keep myself from vandalizing those things if I had to do that constantly.
get an e-bike :)
Why do you think charging stations will be immune? Plus with all the ‘smart’ ‘connected’ cars it’s not impossible for them to push ads directly to your car.
What sucks about charging stations is they don’t have:
EV charging doesn’t require you to stand around for 5 minutes holding a handle to fuel up. The charging times are longer, but once plugged in your need to stay anywhere near the vehicle is zero. And plugging in usually takes less than 5s.
So even if someone came up with a system whereby they expected you to watch an ad before the power would flow, you could always just plug in and walk away. How are they going to know you’re physically there?
As an EV driver I haven’t been to a gas station since I started driving it, but AFAIK this advertising hasn’t come to Canada — and hopefully it never does.
How about a button located near the ad screen and speaker that you have to hold like at least 80% of ad duration. If you failed to reach 80% it would reset to 0 and show you another ad so you can try again.
First — stop giving them ideas! 🤣
Second, a small rock and some tape would likely defeat that.
The idea I had was just so ridiculously evil I just had to teil about it 😄
If you think about it the rock and tape hack can be easily prevented, but I’m not going to elaborate any further as to not give them more ideas.
You’re hired!
There are some of these pumps in France. It infuriates me. The sound is horrible.