You guys have ads on your gas pumps?
Ok the US is really the preview of the dystopian future companies imagine.
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ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I should be legally allowed to smash those screens if they play ads while I’m pumping my gas.
You used to be able to mute them by pressing one of the side buttons but now that just cancels your transaction and stops the pump.
I don’t need advertisements shoved in my face every second of every day.
Johanno@feddit.de 11 months ago
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It’s annoying but I wouldn’t call it dystopian.
At least where I live, it’s an equal mix of “wear your seatbelt”, “don’t text and drive”, and weed dispensaries.It’s not exactly prime advertising space, so you really just get PSAs and weed.
Worst part is when you’re getting gas late at night, say after driving back from a family dinner in another city and so you’re tired and full, and you’re all alone at the pumps on an otherwise quiet night.
Something deep inside the pumps makes them decide to start playing their advertisments from all the pumps at once, but they’re not perfect, so they’re just a little out of sync.
So it’s dark and you’re tired, relaxed, and almost home. When out of nowhere, from all around you, comes the stereophonic cacophonous cry of “B-B-B-BONGS! B-B-B-BLUNTS! AND MORE, AT THE HOUSE OF DDDDANKKKKK!”It’s definitely annoying, but I wouldn’t call it a dystopia.
tycho@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
We have them in France too :(
Devadander@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s hell
citrusface@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yep - screens on every pump play ads the entire time you get gas.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s actually one of the few places I’m fine with ads. I’m just standing there and I can’t look at my phone so why not. Ads are only annoying when I’m trying to do something else like watch a video.
rosymind@leminal.space 11 months ago
I don’t drive much anymore, but when I did I would avoid gas stations with screens (aside from payment screens obviously). If I saw that an unfamiliar gas station had one, I’d get back in my car and get gas elsewhere even if it was a tad more expensive. Forced viewing of advertisements makes me violently angry, and I don’t need the stress of trying to repress that anger
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You used to be able to mute them by pressing one of the side buttons
That only mutes the shit that plays constantly from the pump even when nobody is there using it. Once you start pumping, they start playing different shit that can’t be muted.
lyam23@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Depends on the station. I am still able to mute at most of the stations I’ve used recently.
Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I try to keep track of ones that can’t be turned off so I know to never visit that gas station ever again
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think we can agree that they all fucking suck.
Kase@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Alright I haven’t been to a gas pump in a few months, but when did they start playing ads??? Shit is crazy. Maybe I just never noticed, come to think of it I’ve never been the one pumping the gas before
Candybar121@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Here in the Inland empire some stations dont have speaking ads and the ones that do are still largely mutable luckily.
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Some have been playing ads for years.
Salad_Fries@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’ve been playing ads for at least a decade… though in the early days, some of the gas stations near me played some cringy jimmy kimmel shit instead of ads (somehow, i preferred having my ears violated by the ads)
Yet one more thing that makes me thankful to have gotten rid of my car completely… not being dependent on gas stations is super liberating.
chriscz@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
What is this world coming to?? That’s just nuts
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Standing there pumping gas is one of the last vestiges of just stopping and being there.
Last time I discovered a machine’s ads couldn’t be muted, I stopped the pumps and I’ll never go back to that gas station.
The level of disrespect is mind boggling.
IcansmellyourBundt@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Second button down on the right didn’t work?
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They seem to have learned that everyone knows this feature and now they’re disabling it. I think I’ll just start stabbing the speakers until they get the message to stop this shit
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Nope