I found a patch for the problem.
This is a good point worth discussing.
Does the ad need to be playing to dispense fuel or would these work just fine if they got accidentally dropped really hard?
a can of black spray paint might do the job well.
Gorilla tape.
To anybody thinking about vandalizing this thing:
DONT BREAK IT, not the screen, not the speakers and none of its electronics, you can create a shortcut, then a spark and YOU WILL KILL YOURSELF or the next person that uses the pump.
Paint and stickers are the way to go.
Googly eyes are the answer
Very Cyberpunky. The bad parts of Cyberpunk that is.
I could replace my urethra with a gas pump nozzle
But can I watch ads on it?
Advertising should be illegal.
yeah unless it’s literal signs on your own building/workspace, or it’s just your branding on your own product, etc. advertising must be illegal. they had their chance to be reasonable with it and they fucked it. the entire advertising industry deserves to be outlawed.
Good training for your wrist
That looks like something that won’t last very long. I could be wrong, but my guess is that, being in the handles themselves, those screens are gonna get busted and they won’t have made nearly enough from ad revenue to warrant replacing them on a regular basis. Here in the US we’ve got them built into the pumps so when you start pumping you get some loud ass commercials.
People often intentionally ruin the speakers though too.
Sometimes one of of pump buttons is mute… sometimes.
get yourself one of those emergency glass breakers that are spring loaded.
resist the plutocracy
Here in the u.s they have insanely loud fucking screens that scream commercials at you.
Like volume to the max.
Usually the physical buttons on the side will mute that. One of them do. Just press all of them next time
I will definitely try this. Thank you for the tip.
Have you considered vandalism?
Let’s call it disabling or indispose as a public service.
Vandalism ( as they will undoubtedly will frame it) has a negative connotation.
Language used to fit the view of who uses it.
Like ‘regime’ (government we don’t like) or officer involved shooting (pigs murdered someone).Vandalism is always an answer. May not be the right answer, considering the question.
Hey Gina, what do you think would be a good fundraiser to help cover the funding gaps our shitty government leaves us with year after year?Hey Bob, Joey’s getting out of the hospital today and is going to have staggering debt because the purposefully inefficient private healthcare system has so much power over our elected officials.Fuck it, I tried twice. Vandalism is the answer.
Can of cheap spray paint, hit all the pumps at once
considered? always. trick is to not get caught
I’ve started leaving if the thing shows me an ad, I just put the nozzle back the second the ad plays, gets me enough fuel to get to a non compromised station.
The most fucked is full serve stations with the ads. While my windows are up so Im safe, the poor staff have to listen to an entire gas station worth of pumps blaring ads all day.
Recently I ran into a new one. The pump had a screen, but instead of a tiny screen surrounded by buttons (one of which can be used to mute the video), it was a giant screen with no buttons. Ergo no mute button. I tried clicking around the screen but nothing worked. There’s gotta be a pattern though.
I hate those ones, last one I saw was at a full serve station. Not even fuel select buttons just touch screen for all of it.
If you know someone who can get you some anti petrol stickers, esp ones that promote renewables and / or maybe the new Technology Connections video, please do so.
We don’t have them on the nozzles, but our pumps blare out the audio at hearing damage volumes.
And they wonder why that brand of station is avoided.
Often times you can press one of the buttons to mute it, although apparently some pumps have decided you’re not allowed to decide when you want to hear your own thoughts. Just start pushing the buttons on either side of the screen, chances are one of them will shut it up.
Expanding foam spray in the speaker vents
If I can’t mute them I take my knife and destroy the speaker if its accessible.
They’re kinda hard to get to, but hey, if they want to chase off customers, who am I to stop them?
