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…
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.
thats what they want you to do…
i love paying $5 for a small bag of combos that isnt as big as it used to be
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I mean… It’s Las Vegas. You don’t go to Vegas expecting a vacation experience free from the perverse corruption of money.
The brain implant will be more like “adplus” of it ever catches on. I guarantee it.
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I have a feeling that Surgeons will be made to sign contracts instructing them to refuse BYOC (bring/build your own chip) implants.
Surgeons already aren’t allowed to put non FDA approved things in you. You would go to a tattoo/piercing shop for that sort of thing.
Ooh, that would be hard.
Now you would have to make sure that the tattoo guy has enough time and drive to put the effort into understanding your custom chip design and know which probe to connect to which neuron.
I feel like there’s very few people who could design and build their own brain implant chip. Even in the far future
I feel like if (the de-techification of general public doesn’t take place in the future) && (I were to be born in the future); then
I would probably giving free chip-design customisation services to friends and family, using some open source chip design as a base.It’s just not something you can do in your garage these days (or for the past few decades), even if the designs were open sourced. I like your idea and wish there was less concentrated power in chip manufacturing, I just don’t think it’s very feasible.
Well, designing and manufacturing are 2 different things.
You’re right as in we will still have to rely on some Workshop having a million dollar fabrication setup with at least half a dozen experts working, to do the manufacturing part.Furthermore, said setup will have to be optimised not for scale (as in workshop mode and not assembly line mode), focusing on getting one-shot success rather than mass-manufacturing and getting yield %ages. So, we won’t really benefit from things like Intel opening up their fabs, since they still expect a bulk order.
We still always have FPGAs.
Just need one with an open source VHDL compiler.
The version of Neuralink we can afford will be ad supported.
I’ll just wait until Neuralink gets ReVanced.
Only at first.
Then every version will be ad-supported.
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
Costco pumps dont have ads. Only fuel there. Set the other gas starion on fire
Yeah I need to pay a yearly subscription, and wait in line for 30 minutes (wasting gas) in order to pump it. Yeah let’s do that
Opt out entirely. Get an electric car. Your gas pump is your garage and you start every day with a full tank.
Mr. fancypants with a garage over there. Meanwhile, ain’t no public chargers for miles around here.
If only I had 80 grand lying around for a tesla…
Tesla is a shit EV. There are other options. I’ve seen more and more Rivian’s in my area lately.
It’s a good time to clean your windshield, check your oil/coolant levels, tire pressure and throw any trash away… do you really stare at the pump like a n00bz?!
Oh you’re getting raped?
Why don’t you go over your taxes in your head? Don’t forget those deductions!
You can always recite pemdas in your head, or other acronyms, roygbiv, count backwards from 100…
All in all, if you are getting raped, don’t fight back! Just lay there and take it like a good sheeple
You can’t rape the willing… But if you are dumb enough to return over and over maybe you lack the mental capacity for consent altogether…is there only one gas station you can go to? Are you like a moth that goes towards the light? You know, I can help you get a discounted bus pass for your condition. It seems like it might be the best thing for you ❤️
Tell that to my ex…
She was willing but I still raped the hell outta her
Gotta love people that think the way they live is how everyone else on this planet lives…
I’m sorry my mom told me not to talk to rapists/retards
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….
They too will get the screwdriver treatment!
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….
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.
Every station I have gone to with them has had the mute button labeled or at least functional. If they didn’t, I would never return.
The only time they are useful is when they offer a coupon for something I was already going to buy, but that happens so infrequently I’d rather have my attention back.
The ones near me don’t, but it’s still there. Just push buttons till it’s quiet. For mine, it’s the fourth button.
The ones here, you can’t mute. Pisses me off so bad I will refuse to back to a gas station. I have even pulled up seen the ads on another pump and drove off. I’m fucking captive! Congrats on losing money greedy fucks!
Are there any potential repercussions for sticking a utility knife into the speaker grill?
In another thread someone said they carry a sharpie marker with them and label the button(s) you need to press to mute the audio for future people.
I also always have a sharpie on me and often use it to fix the missing labels on these pumps.
Most gas stations are monitored with cameras (often times with facial recognition), so they will be able to see your face and license plate, then charge you with vandalism.
Mild electric shock and a vandalism charge if caught. Worth it? I don’t know but I’m getting sick of the fucking ads
Edit: So stab then pump, instead of the other way around to avoid boom boom?
Push and hold the left and right top buttons to put it in maintenance mode. You can do everything normally, but no sound.
Does this work universally or is there a particular station you frequent that it works at?
Depends on the model of pump. Some of them you push one of the unlabeled buttons a few times (my local Shell it’s the 2nd one down on the right)
This drives me nuts too. Who the hell decided to do this? I avoid the stations with ads.
I never saw these before I visited the US. While tanking somewhere in eastern Texas, on my way from Houston to a tiny town south of New Orleans.
My “fix” was waiting in the car with bluetooth buds in, while the pump did its thing. Holy hell those were annoying.
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.
Volta has level2 free chargers in some of the grocery stores in my area. Pretty big screens. I don’t pay attention to them when I’m charging while shopping.
Not great for privacy or freedom though
Still early in the enshittification cycle. It’ll happen eventually.
They target the most common denominator. Once EVs are everywhere, look at the chargers getting filled with ads.
Maybe, but I don’t think it’s worth it. With a gas car, you stand idle at the pump for a few minutes making sure that nothing bursts into flames or gas doesn’t overflow. Charging an EV isn’t like that. They’ve got about 5 seconds of your time at the most.
Fast charging is constantly improving though, I wouldn’t be surprised if we reach a point where EV charging improves to a point where it takes roughly the same time as charging an ICE vehicle in the 2030s.
Lol that would be the ultimate first world problem. Charging so fast it makes more sense to stand at the plug than go into the store to pee.
Well, Toyota’s claims about batteries are intended to convince people not to buy EVs yet. They’re going to be SO much better real soon now so just buy another Toyota gas car and think about EVs next time.
It’s just another flavour of the anti-EV FUD Toyota has been spewing for a decade now. They’re also saying that hydrogen is the future and that gas will always be 70%+ of the car market, so you have your choice of anti-EV FUD. Consistency doesn’t matter when you’re running a disinformation campaign.
All of the chargers I’ve seen have ads on them.
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.
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 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.
I likely wouldn’t buy a diamond ring but I most certainly not buy one from a certain diamond store that has fucking annoying ads. They know who they are and if you are in Lower Mainland of BC, you know who I’m talking about. They can blow and choke on a red hot cock shaped metal rod. I’m glad I moved so far north that I won’t get any ads for them ever again.
Diamonds are scammed by Debeers anyway
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.
Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world, 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.
