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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....

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[–] Rolando 117 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] pdxfed 74 points 8 months ago

I hope you paid them for the lost ad revenue you caused them to suffer.

[–] grue 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I hope you filed a complaint with the state agency that regulates gas pumps.

[–] vanontom 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sir, this is Texas. Glorified "gas pumps" run the state, and outlawed all regulation. After my complaint, my family was abducted like migrants and bussed to Chicago. So.. thank you.

[–] grue 1 points 8 months ago

After my complaint, my family was abducted like migrants and bussed to Chicago.

Could be worse; Texas has been known to deport brown US citizens to Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've seen a lot of those. The card gets physically stuck until the machine decides that the payment is completed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 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 15 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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