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…

AlexisFR,
@AlexisFR@jlai.lu avatar

I have never seen any ads in gas pump over here. But at the equivalent of 8$ per gallon, there is no need.

eager_eagle,
@eager_eagle@lemmy.world avatar

just the US speedrunning a dystopic world

zaph,

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.

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

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.

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.

GunnyHighway,

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

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.

DigitalDruid,

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    JonEFive,

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

    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.

    Bocky,

    Fuck going to gas pumps, that shits for boomers

    possiblylinux127,

    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,

    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

    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.)

    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.

    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 😁

    Bonesince1997,

    Ohhh maybe it’s the multiple presses that are needed

    annoyedcamel,

    I was just pressing every button once without success.

    Dupree878,

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

    toaster,

    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,

    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,

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

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