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…
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.
And that ad revenue is probably significant. While consumers of commodities don’t really have much selection.
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!
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs."
– Banksy
Interested in a Adam Curtis video on the merger of psychology, marketing, and politics?
That’s why my hobby is firing infrared lasers at soviet early launch warning satellites.
I wish advertisers would realize that forcing me to watch their ad against my will makes me actively hostile against their brand and/or product. If I remember their brand name from an intrusive ad I will not only not buy their products, I will go out of my way to give my money to their competitors.
Advertising is among the most studied psychological phenomenoms in the world. It’s not so much about getting you to buy their product but more about you remembering the brand. Ads work. That why they’re everywhere.
Sure I can name several brands that I’m not buying from either because of their ads… …but I remember the brands.
Whenever someone brings this up, someone also brings up the fact that ads are proven to work in general not on everyone. So I guess it’s my turn today.
Yes, but in the context of whether or not to be scumbags about the gas pump they only care about the aggregate behavior. “I wish they would realize I make a mental note to never buy,” they do, tho. They don’t care because it convinces two or more other people to buy. Ads will continue getting worse because none of us will do collective action about it.
I’ve also cone to realize that this is the real purpose of ads.
[email protected], you have the right idea, but the other key thing you should remember is to never talk about the corps to anyone, even if you’re dragging their name through the mud. “No such thing as bad press,” as they say.
It’s good to denounce the practice, but it seems naming and shaming specific companies just doesn’t work anymore at this stage.
Second button down on the right side of the screen, press it (up to) 4 times and it mutes that shit
Ohhh maybe it’s the multiple presses that are needed
stopped working for me like 2 years ago
I’ve read that, but it’s never worked for me
Most of them the second button down on the right is mute, though I’ve been running into some recently that disabled the mute.
Anyway, I sharpie a “mute” next to the button on stations where it isn’t labeled for other people. It’s one bit of graffiti that I’m not at all conflicted about.
This never works for me at any brand gas station. I try it every time.
I’ve had the exact opposite experience. Only once has the second button down from the right not worked. But in that instance it was the bottom right button.
Neither of those work at the gas station nearest my house. In my frustration I began running my fingers up and down the buttons and found that if you press the second from the top on both sides you get into an administrative screen. Pump still works fine and the ad is muted, and it resets when I leave.
Wow, in Europe we haven’t reached that gas station modernization stage yet.
just the US speedrunning a dystopic world
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
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
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
Come live in NJ. No ads!
This drives me nuts too. Who the hell decided to do this? I avoid the stations with ads.
Get an EV and you’ll never have to go to a gas station again. None of the chargers I’ve seen have ads on them.
Still early in the enshittification cycle. It’ll happen eventually.
All of the chargers I’ve seen have ads on them.
Maybe public ones but the good thing about electric is you plug in and either walk away or sit in your car you don’t need to be outside near the pump to charge.
Watch them start making chargers that hook up to your infotainment system and run ads all the way through your charging session.
Edit: period.
That’s an interesting way to spin the fact that it takes so long to charge that it’s impractical to stand there and wait for it to finish.
If you turned the gas pump down to make it pump slowly enough, you could walk away from it while you wait, too.
I don’t even have an EV and I have to see the ads on the chargers because they’re in front of the store I’m walking into. So far, I’ve only noticed that at grocery stores, but it’s annoying.
If the mute button doesn’t work I just go to other stations next time. Some of the gas stations around here have gotten rid of the ads.
For the pumps that the mute button doesn’t work: carry a small screwdriver, 1/8", flat blade, insert into center of speaker then pull sideways to severe the coil wire.
Great idea, it’s not like every single gas station is riddled with cameras and you have a license plate they can track you with or anything….
Tired of ads at the gas station? Carry a lighter
Can’t have a problem if the problem is atomized. You being right along with it may be a problem….
They too will get the screwdriver treatment!
It doesn’t effect the operation of the pump and takes a three second poke and twist. With no legitimate use of the speaker it would be months before it is noticed. Think they would scrub through tens of thousands of interactions with the pump and find that one person who leaned in a bit? Doubtful, and if so, minor vandalism charge and a small fine for months of quiet peace. Worth it in my book.
Some electronics have a way to test the system if the speaker is functional and can potentially kill the system, so that’s not even remotely true. Also, maybe they have to manually check the pump every morning when they turn the pumps on as part of their start up process.
You are a fool if you think stuff isn’t able to verify and test itself in todays age or they don’t have an employee checking stuff semi frequently…
In either case it wouldn’t be hard to go through a days footage, even easier if the system self tests and tells you when/if the problem occurred.
Or just go to a different gas station instead of vandalizing property that’s not yours.
