Covertly stab out the speakers.
They never asked for your consent to pollute your mind with invasive thoughts, jingles, etc. Don’t ask for theirs.
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
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I don't think I have ever been to a gas station with ads obnoxious enough to notice. If I start noticing them (ie extremely loud) I stop getting my gas there.
Thankfully only one near me does this and I've never gone back once I saw they had these installed. This is really the only way we're ever going to see these practices phased out. Corporations don't take anything seriously until it affects the bottom line. Just look at climate change.
I think getting this practice phased out would require a sustained social media campaign. Otherwise the MBAs just see mysterious fluctuations on their charts, and they'll make up some vaguely-political theories about Millenials.
I'm hoping this will never be the practice in Germany! We're using these gas pumps with LC Displays from the 80's so there can't be apps with ads on a screen. Also known as "German Digitization". (A buzz word for modern technology /sarc)
Please don't tell it to European oil concerns to update their gas pumps. Shhhhh 🤫I want to have it without ads 'til I'm to old to use a gas pump.
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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.
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you can get fuel delivered to your house, install a few tanks, or straight to your vehicle
Strange things are in the US. The only good adblocker which ocurres me for this
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.
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Not only are they stupidly repetitive, they are loud. They do make me look for other stations. I've found I can mess with them sometimes using the home button, it can pause the marketing BS for a good minute.
id take the ads over the 20 questions it asks you before you can even select the fuel grade. and the button barely works so i have to press it 20 times