This company went bankrupt btw 💯 I can only hope whatever chain decided to try this shit got ostracized too.
Reminds me of the company that did smart coolers for gas station coolers. It cost thousands of dollars and required proprietary service for this display. Idk if anyone is bankrupt but the company that made them essentially stopped supporting them so has stations have worthless screens blocking the merchandise
I saw a bunch of those cooler displays just showing errors/blue screens.
I refuse to look at them anyway and just stand there holding the door open while I browse/decide what I want. They can pay to cool and then re-heat the room ontop of the power costs for those displays.
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.
Vandalize it.
I’m usually not in favor of this sort of thing. But I think there are some instances where that may be justified. This screen serves ZERO public benefit. It’s just there to annoy you. So IMHO doing something like 3d printing a cover that you leave on the screen is a public service.
99% of advertisements serve zero public benefit. Its in society’s best interest to actively hinder them whenever possible IMO.
Advertisement is the ruling classes’ graffiti. Obliterating it is a public service.
I like this take
All right well I hate to disagree but advertisements do support a lot of websites and news organizations, or at least they used to before the tech Giants took most of the advertising money.
Sorry, whose infrastructure are these gas pump advertisements propping up? Pretty sure this is just going towards lining someone’s pockets.
I was just responding to 99% of advertisement being whatever. Obviously this one is bullshit, a lot of it’s bullshit. Maybe most.
This screen serves ZERO public benefit.
It’s in a gas station, why would it?
Why shouldn’t it? Or failing that, why should it be there at all? Fuck capitalism, fuck the constant attempt to extract value from every single moment of our existence.
Why shouldn’t it? Or failing that, why should it be there at all?
You answered already:
Fuck capitalism, fuck the constant attempt to extract value from every single moment of our existence.
Agreed.
If you don’t know about automatic metal punches, they’re a great solution to these fuckin’ things. Small enough to be palmed and will punch right through a screen with little effort.
Thank you for your service.
Yep… brass punch. Graffiti mop with a metal tip full of brake fluid/ink combo does some fun stuff too.
Hang on, that’s just a bingo dotter…
edit: God I forgot how much I hate what the graffiti community has become. “Oh just etch your tag in so it will be harder to remove” what fucking dipshit toy came up with that? Did impermanence just get forgotten? Where did the obsession about not getting buffed come from?
As someone who does slaps, I’m no stranger to the idea of temporariness nor do I really try to combat it. My work sticks around then disappears, as I will eventually myself. As for the obsession of not getting buffed who knows, likely born out of the gang affiliated side of graffiti, same boneheads who fight people physically over turf, etc… But since we were discussing obstructive protest I think it’s worth a mention. Speaking of which - don’t get a weed sprayer off of Craigslist and fill it full of paint, that sort of thing could lead to no good.
Fuck me
With a metal punch? That seems kinda… organ-burst-y
This was reported but I don’t think it warrants censorship.
If you’re taking this more seriously than it should be, just keep in mind that there will likely be legal consequences since gas stations frequently have plenty of cameras and ask yourself if this hill is worth dying on. You’ll get charged and they’ll just replace the damn things anyways.
Lmao, was my comment the only one reported? Because this whole thread is people saying to vandalize it. 😂
Yeah, not sure why yours in particular was the only one, probably timing.
Have you considered vandalism?
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
Advertising should be illegal.
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?
angry unibomber noises
kaczynski was right
Next level : if you want it to fill your tank fast & ad free, you have to subscribe to a monthly card-club with Facial-Recognition, otherwise it keeps showing you ads & it fills your gas tank reeeeeally sloooOOOOoowly to make sure you watch at least 5 ads ^^
If you try to close the ad then the hose sucks the gasoline out of your tank but still charges you for the amount pumped. Also good luck getting the right fuel for your engine, the pump selection system has been replaced with a gacha game. Try again and maybe next time you’ll get Diesel-chan!
hahahahah gems
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.
Gas pumps get beat up. A touch screen will not suffer that level of abuse for long…
I think they use a touch layer overtop the actual screen so if it gets fucked they can swap it
Sounds like something that could motivate me to wear a ring with a diamond. “oops. Seems diamonds really are a hard material…”
Removed by mod
Mmm I should buy a moissanite ring
Can’t do that in the US some crackhead would take it and sell it as an ipad
Crackheads doing community service
Or a hacker would make it play porn the Rauchy 1970s porn
I wonder how those get updated… maybe over the air? If so, might be fun.
I don’t see them upgrading the pumps just to get ethernet to the nozzle.Hackers doing community service
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.
Would be a shame if you dropped the nozzle on that cold hard pavement.
Or spilled a black glue-like substance on it.
Spray paint or hard to peal off stickers.
Stickers, yes, spray paint, no. I guarantee you (with knowledge from experience) that a gas station owner (or their grumpy manager) will happily sit through hours of grainy cctv footage to find the little moment a can is visible in your hand, ignoring every other urgent task they should be handling. I wouldn’t be surprised, since protecting corporations is what cops love, if some cop would then take far too much time to get the palantir/flock cameras from the local area and find your car. So unless you’re just hunting these down…
A far better method would be to ‘accidentally’ spill some gasoline, use a napkin to wipe it up, and then ‘accidentally’ hold the gasoline soaked rag against the screen while fueling. Stickers, like you said, would work, because it would be harder to see you apply them.
Spring loaded carbide center punch. Discrete and effective.
Even Colon or perfume would ruin the image
Sticking the nozzle up your ass is dangerous. Gas is highly toxic when introduced rectally
Reminds me of those old meme tweets like “I spray his colon on my pillow to help me sleep better”
…relevant username? 🤔
“when your sheets still smell like his colon in the morning 🥰”
Very Cyberpunky. The bad parts of Cyberpunk that is.
