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Fuck ads at the gas pump

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....

eager_eagle ,
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

just the US speedrunning a dystopic world

zaph ,
@zaph@sh.itjust.works avatar

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.

Blum0108 ,

They'd just blame millennials for ruining buying gas and double down on the ads.

BearOfaTime ,

More that I don't know of a single gas station without ads

fsxylo ,

Yup. The "free" market says that if everyone does the same shit, you have no choice, and they still make more money.

intensely_human ,

If a company’s being smart, deviating from the universal enshittification will earn them market share.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod ,
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

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.

BearOfaTime ,

And that ad revenue is probably significant. While consumers of commodities don't really have much selection.

Dramaking37 ,

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.

intensely_human ,

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.

xionzui ,

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?

Dramaking37 ,

A made up job!

Blum0108 ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2222d385-d8ff-4d6e-aec0-019a89249fd9.gif

Bonesince1997 , (edited )

Try keeping thick earmuffs in your car, within quick reach in case the ads start playing.

ebits21 ,
@ebits21@lemmy.ca avatar

Is this a thing in Canada yet? Thankfully have never seen it here.

can ,

I haven't encountered it. Maybe we're lucky and some law prevents it? I find it hard to believe they wouldn't exploit us further if there wasn't something stopping them.

GunnyHighway ,

Shell's had them for a while out in Alberta.

DigitalDruid ,

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    ech ,

    The brain implant will be more like "adplus" of it ever catches on. I guarantee it.

    DigitalDruid ,

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    ulterno ,
    @ulterno@lemmy.kde.social avatar

    I have a feeling that Surgeons will be made to sign contracts instructing them to refuse BYOC (bring/build your own chip) implants.

    Otherwise, just make your own chip. You decide the materials, you decide the process. You decide each and every part (alright, maybe just as much as you can fathom) of the circuit.
    You decide how powerful the feedback is and what functions it provides. So you are not paying for the risk of features other than the ones you want.

    quicksand ,

    I feel like there's very few people who could design and build their own brain implant chip. Even in the far future

    ulterno ,
    @ulterno@lemmy.kde.social avatar

    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.

    But then again, there's already a very few number of ppl like me...

    quicksand ,

    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.

    ulterno ,
    @ulterno@lemmy.kde.social avatar

    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.

    qwertilliopasd ,
    @qwertilliopasd@lemmy.world avatar

    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.

    ulterno ,
    @ulterno@lemmy.kde.social avatar

    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.

    small_crow ,
    @small_crow@lemmy.ca avatar

    The version of Neuralink we can afford will be ad supported.

    Klear ,

    I'll just wait until Neuralink gets ReVanced.

    BallsandBayonets ,

    Only at first.

    Then every version will be ad-supported.

    JonEFive ,

    I mean... It's Las Vegas. You don't go to Vegas expecting a vacation experience free from the perverse corruption of money.

    Bocky ,

    Fuck going to gas pumps, that shits for boomers

    possiblylinux127 ,
    @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

    Ok I guess. I'm not sure where else you would get gas

    Swedneck ,
    @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    why would you get gas? electric vehicles are so much more comfortable

    possiblylinux127 ,
    @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

    Because they are not practical? Not to mention they are a privacy and freedom nightmare

    rikonium ,

    Sorry to be the one but the privacy and freedom issue is independent of powertrain. Some earlier models before the automakers went upmarket with EVs were perfectly normal. Now the tablet-on-dash, telematics and other data collection has become pervasive in EVs but now it’s in full-force on ICE vehicles for quite some time. A Mach E and Colorado can both be, and have been, bricked by a bad OTA update.

    Practicality though also will vary. If people were used to charging at home all the time, telling people that they have to visit a business to refuel every X days or Y miles would seem odd just because it’s quite different than people think is normal.

    MutilationWave ,

    Uhh not everyone can just drop 40 grand on an electric car.

    Swedneck ,
    @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    hah yeah that's about the response i expected.

    Nowhere did say car, i'm talking about electric mopeds, e-bikes, and e-scooters. There are countries other than the US.

    Outtatime ,
    @Outtatime@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Big city problems. This is why I love living in the sticks

    4am ,

    Second button down on the right side of the screen, press it (up to) 4 times and it mutes that shit

    thedirtyknapkin ,

    stopped working for me like 2 years ago

    Bonesince1997 ,

    Ohhh maybe it's the multiple presses that are needed

    annoyedcamel ,

    I was just pressing every button once without success.

    remotelove ,

    Since we are sharing...

    Holding down 1-5-9 or 3-5-7 can drop a POS card reader into debug mode, but it's brand dependent. (I have had it also crash the host terminals in some cases as well.)

    ulterno ,
    @ulterno@lemmy.kde.social avatar

    Because why just hack it as much as you need to when you can go all the way? AMIRITE?

    remotelove , (edited )

    It serves a niché function in some situations. (Physical pen testing, in my case. I needed the person at the register gone in one case so I could setup a small network tap.)

    ulterno ,
    @ulterno@lemmy.kde.social avatar

    Physical pen testing

    was it really pen testing or just pen..ing😏

    JonEFive ,

    The only difference is who pays you to do it 😁

    BaumGeist ,

    also want to say that this is illegal in most places. The store may or may not press charges, but they have the right to and they will win that case if they do. So only do it if you know you can get away with it or have permission or don't mind having the stain on your legal record and whatever fine they hit you with

    remotelove ,

    It's not destructive, nor can it really be considered illegal access. I suppose there is something illegal about it if it's classified as a DoS, I guess. There isn't much on a payment PED aside from an encryption key and maybe some network information.

    Entering your PIN and accidentally hitting 3 buttons hardly seems like something to get charged with. How you leverage that for other things could easily be a problem.

    All I am saying is that the likelihood of serious repercussion is very low. Still, I have to agree: Only do it with permission and with purpose.

    Dupree878 ,

    I’ve read that, but it’s never worked for me

    toaster ,
    @toaster@slrpnk.net avatar

    I'm just going to leave this here.

    Spaghetti_Hitchens ,

    I was really hoping this was for fuel pumps, but the bus stop ads are great, too.

    Scolding0513 ,

    A gentleman and a scholar

    NewtonPulsifer ,

    I bought an EV. Now the only time I have to go to a gas station now is to fuel my company car. Yea. I fucking hate ads.

    Diplomjodler3 ,

    What's a gas pump?

    Spaghetti_Hitchens ,

    If you're in Europe, perhaps you know it as a petrol ejaculator.

    possiblylinux127 ,
    @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

    The thing you get gas from

    AI_toothbrush , (edited )

    Imagine paying 4$ a gallon lool
    Edit: why am i getting downvoted? 4$ is extremely cheap here i europe. A gallon is 4 liters right?

    datavoid ,

    Haha ya, what a sucker! This is why I make my own gas at home.

    /s

    filister ,

    Damn, paying 4$ for a gallon, here in Europe the gallon is more than 7$.

    NoIWontPickAName ,

    You just have to start invading countries for their oil.

    If you hurry you might be able to get part of Russia before the Ukrainian’s blow up all the refineries

    jkrtn ,

    You mean your government isn't shoveling money into the already wealthy oil companies' coffers? What are they even investing in, then, human rights? Silly.

    Pringles ,

    I have never experienced this. Where do you have ads at gas stations?

    snooggums ,
    @snooggums@midwest.social avatar

    The United States of America.

    Most of them anyway.

    possiblylinux127 ,
    @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

    When they have an LCD screen. I go to the one sketchy one down the road because the pumps are older

    DdCno1 ,

    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.

    SlopppyEngineer ,

    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.

    DdCno1 ,

    Huh, I guess living in a small town with gas stations that have had the exact same pumps for many decades has its perks.

    SlopppyEngineer ,

    Yeah, I've only seen these near big cities and major highways.

    MutilationWave ,

    They're all over West Virginia which is pretty much nothing but small towns.

    possiblylinux127 ,
    @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

    Find the old gas station

    Thorny_Insight ,

    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.

    nokturne213 ,
    @nokturne213@sopuli.xyz avatar

    That is how it started here. Then they got loud.

    NegativeInf ,

    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!

    Pwnmode ,

    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.

    CosmicTurtle ,

    You'd think it should be less expensive.

    But then you're not thinking of increasing shareholder value.

    How dare you!

    AtariDump ,

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/89757e63-a0a3-4a27-988d-5e1ddd435673.jpeg

    letsgo ,

    We've got some in the UK, like this one at the Shell petrol station at S60 5ND (pic from Oogle Gearth)

    https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/0ee21d2c-7bc2-4bcd-8e1c-3beea88b1532.webp

    AtariDump ,

    Is that a scale so you can weigh your gas?

    intensely_human ,

    “Place your GASOLINE in the tank”

    AtariDump ,

    Took me a minute but when I heard it I can’t unhear it.

    Taleya ,

    A shell in Australia is the only place i've seen this as well. They will not be getting our custom.

    Swedneck ,
    @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    get an e-bike :)

    NikkiDimes , (edited )

    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.

    shadycomposer ,

    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.

    Yaztromo ,

    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 ,

    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.

    intensely_human ,

    You’re hired!

    Yaztromo ,

    First — stop giving them ideas! 🤣

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

    siipale ,

    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.

    intensely_human ,

    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
    Sphks ,
    @Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    There are some of these pumps in France. It infuriates me. The sound is horrible.

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