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Fuck ads at the gas pump (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

First — stop giving them ideas! 🤣

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

You’re hired!