Ads when you’re pumping gas

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• hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I haven’t lived in the US in a while, and every time I visit and one of these things starts shouting at me, I wonder how anyone tolerates this shit.

  Occasionally you’ll see one button that’s more worn, maybe bottom right iirc, that mutes it. Doesn’t always work, though.

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• Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s still very rare for me to see a pump with ads. Mostly happens at stores with attached gas stations: Kroger, Walmart, etc. I don’t go to those places. Not because of ads though. That’s just a bonus.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I got gas from Sheetz today and it put up a silent and stilla ad on the display while the pump was running.

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• Baaron87@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Every single gas station in my state has gas pumps with screens and ads. Honestly one of the most annoying things today.

  I have one gas station that I frequently use and found one of the pumps has a blown out speaker. Even though the ads still play, I hear nothing! The infuriating part comes when that pump is already in use when I arrive. I’ll have to try some of the other comments suggestions here about pressing a side button to mute it

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You could also fix the speakers on other pumps you use.

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• Greg@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That sounds frustrating, you should buy a pair or Ray Ban sunglasses to reduce the glare from the ad screens. Never hide - Ray Ban.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My state just made self-serve gas a thing so I got an electric. If I’m going to have to fuel up my own car, I’ll do it in my carport.

  RIP to all those service station jobs that just evaporated. Much like how the 350% increase in spilled fuel (my state can statistically expect) will evaporate.

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    350% increase in spilled fuel. How much fuel were the full service attendants spilling? Not much at all, I think is what that stat is trying to imply. Why did they report it as a percentage? So you wouldn’t know how much would be spilled, I’ve never spilled fuel when gassing up my car. I doubt many people have spilled much at all–and certainly not routinely.

    All that aside, I like to see people employed.

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• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s usually one of the buttons you can hold down to mute the ads, near the bottom right in the little phalanx of buttons all around the screen.

  If you find it, label it “MUTE” in market or something, spread the word.

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  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sometimes, I’ve started seeing newer ones in some places where there is no mute button

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Around here they played audio very loudly for about a year and then they all stopped with the audio. Most still play a video, although they seem to mostly be for the convenience or grocery store that the pumps are at.

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• Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The screens on the pumps (around me at least) have a mute button on the screen.

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• thingAmaBob@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s like that at every gas station where I live; every single one. All of the small gas stations have been bought and sold within the last couple of years and upgraded to this stupid video ad model.

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• DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Holy crap if they started doing that in my area I’d switch to an EV within a month.

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• fulcrummed@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But you do have Mt Hood and the Columbia River and the coastline to console you. 😍

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