This is one of those American absurdities that thankfully hasn't made its way over to Europe yet, at least to my knowledge. I hope I have an electric car by the point they start introducing these here.

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.

"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs."

– Banksy

The ones here, you can't mute. Pisses me off so bad I will refuse to back to a gas station. I have even pulled up seen the ads on another pump and drove off. I'm not a fucking captive! Congrats on losing money greedy fucks!

I avoid gas stations that have ads. There's a chain where I live that doesn't do them, so they get all my business.

I wish advertisers would realize that forcing me to watch their ad against my will makes me actively hostile against their brand and/or product. If I remember their brand name from an intrusive ad I will not only not buy their products, I will go out of my way to give my money to their competitors.

Second button down on the right side of the screen, press it (up to) 4 times and it mutes that shit

Most of them the second button down on the right is mute, though I've been running into some recently that disabled the mute.

Anyway, I sharpie a "mute" next to the button on stations where it isn't labeled for other people. It's one bit of graffiti that I'm not at all conflicted about.

Wow, in Europe we haven't reached that gas station modernization stage yet.

I avoid those stations i know have ads, and if surprised... i'm happy to know of the hidden mute button.

I'm just going to leave this here.

Late-stage capitalism means this bullshit will keep creeping into every facet of life. I hate it.

One of my most upvoted comments on here is saying I should be legally allowed to smash those screens if they play ads.

I don't need advertisements shoved in my face every second of every day.

Maybe we need a need OSM tag

just the US speedrunning a dystopic world

We need to start a movement to show people different ways to vandalize them without being caught, and print stickers to stick on them to show the reasoning behind the vandalosm

Come live in NJ. No ads!

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

Get an EV and you’ll never have to go to a gas station again. None of the chargers I’ve seen have ads on them.