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…

    • Rolando@lemmy.world
      117·
      9 months ago

      One time I put in my card, but the pump couldn’t show me an ad because it crashed. My card was stuck in the pump. The guys inside tried resetting the pump but that didn’t work, so they said it’d be a week before someone came around to fix it. I had to cancel the card and get a new number. All because I couldn’t watch the ads.

      • 4am@lemm.ee
        82·
        9 months ago

        I’ve never seen a pump that took a card inside it like an ATM; did you mean the transaction was stuck or the physical card?

          • BakuEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            I’ve never seen one in Australia. We don’t really prepay for petrol here. Some servos in the dodgiest suburbs do make you between certain hours, but I’ve never seen one that makes everybody always prepay or one that actually takes your card. Most of the time you’d go inside to prepay anyways, but on the few pumps I’ve seen that do have card payments on the physical pump it’s either tap or swipe, no insert, and no holding cards hostage

        • colforge@lemmy.world
          15·
          9 months ago

          I’ve been to many a pump that instructs you to insert and leave your card, then ‘latches’ onto the card once you’ve inserted it, locking it into place until the authorization for the transaction is complete. I’ve seen them in Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana.

      • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
        2·
        9 months ago

        Pliers woulda worked (from experience). I always keep a pair handy for this and other more practical reasons.

    • Frozengyro@lemmy.world
      171·
      9 months ago

      The one thing that would push people to electric. At least then you can charge at home and avoid gas stations.

    • heysoundude@derpzilla.net
      3·
      9 months ago

      Costco has no ads for the time being, and I can’t see it going with ads because they can only slow the sale of gasoline that people already line up for after paying to access the ability to buy it.