Is anyone else repulsed by this stuff?
The gas pumps that play advertisements while your car fills are incredibly obnoxious and makes me regret being a customer.
I think of "tax what you want less of".
The gas pumps that play advertisements while your car fills are incredibly obnoxious and makes me regret being a customer.
I think of "tax what you want less of".
Deface them. This is legitimate defense.
Does it make murder right? Certainly not.
Because you want others to believe that that is a bad solution. If its the only available effective solution then it isn't bad.
> It should be obvious, vote with your dollar, don't pump gas there.
How many gas station chains do you have to choose from near you and what makes you think that the others won't just put on the same annoying ads? Voting with your wallet is meaningless for issues where most people will begrudingly put up with something because there are only so many options and there are more important differences to them (mostly price).
What happens if you boycott your closest petrol station, spend extra cash, time and CO2 to reach the next closest one? You've penalised yourself, and the environment.
You may or may not convince other people to do the same, but the drop in revenue may not be noticed, or not get attributed correctly, or might be more than offset by the extra revenue from the adverts.
Meanwhile the replacement place that you're using notices that people seem to be tolerating the annoying adverts so they decide to do the same.
Direct action is likely to be more effective.
What is the solution to the problem?
Channel the inner 5 year old. It's the only way to be sure.
My suggestion would be to spray expanding polyurethane foam (e.g. Great Stuff) into the grille. Immobilize the diaphragm, and muffle anything that's left.
But, vandalism is bad. Even when it is justified retaliation. :-/
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This trick stopped working at all of the gas stations I frequent, sometime within the last year or so.
All at approximately the same time, multiple brands. Or at least multiple signages, not sure I could attest to big oil corporate structure consolidations!
I assume it was a software update from the pump/ad network vendor, possibly in reaction to the secret getting out.
So, thanks. :)
Nobody ever measures lost sales due to annoyed customers, it contradicts someone else's project, politics. Like that website that you immediately close when it bombards you with engagement popups.
I worry about the feedback loop here. You stopped going because of the ads, but unless the person making the decisions knows that, then these things don't change. I don't have a solution.
I don't really care though. Gas quality is the same across brands.
The second time we didn't go there while passing that place, I dropped them a friendly mail. I must have been not the only one, because now they accept cards.
Sometimes talking to people helps. Though with a franchise there might be no-one on site with the power to "just fix" things. Regarding the gas station: Maybe charge at home instead? :P
It's more work everyone. Workers need to design the screens according to product inside, I need to wait to see whether my favorite cheese has moved for "engagement", etc.
I absolutely hate to be held hostage by ads.
Comparing hearing an ad while you pump gas to rape is disgusting. Grow up.
The gas-pump ads are not as bad as airplane ads, since I could reclaim my right to choose by just walking away and never driving again, but in the later case there are literal restraints involved because I cannot leave the flight. What is disgusting is that "captive audience" is a selling point for marketing "innovations".
All attention was drawn directly towards me with this screen blaring advertisements at me. I as very much "put on display" in a way I did not enjoy.
As far as walgreens goes. I hate dealing with them. They charge premium prices for every item. But their parking lot is always dirty and unkempt; and their employees are less than helpful; and there is always a line. I'd rather just go to CVS and use the self checkout.