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…

  • shadycomposer@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      4·
      9 months ago

      What sucks about charging stations is they don’t have:

      • trash cans
      • squeegees to clean my windshield
      • a portico to keep the rain off my head
      • a little convenience store with coffee and snacks
    • Yaztromo@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • siipale@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        9 months ago

        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?

        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.

        • Yaztromo@lemmy.world
          3·
          9 months ago

          First — stop giving them ideas! 🤣

          Second, a small rock and some tape would likely defeat that.

          • siipale@sopuli.xyz
            2·
            9 months ago

            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.