My eyes and attention are for me to waste, they are not for ads.

Find the mute button - usually the second button down on the right - then mark it clearly with a sharpie for the next person.

Unfortunately there are some pump models that don't have a mute button now and the best you can do is retreat to the car and wait it out.
- I can think of much better things to do, like keeping a flathead screwdriver handy for stabbing speakers (in Minecraft)
- An air can turned upside-down gets cold enough to destroy most speaker cones, leaves no evidence that the machine is malfunctioning and needs repair, and is legal and non-suspicious to carry around in your car.
  In Minecraft.
"🔇"
You are performing a public service.

Where the living fuck do petrol pumps have video ads? That's crazy

Shouldnt suprise you but…US. (Possibly other countries) Years ago they started adding video screens to display certain things, so as natural progression goes….there’s a screen so there will be ads. Loud-as-shit video ads that play as soon as you start pumping. And when no one is at the pumps they cycle silent ad slideshows.
- Damn, audio especially sounds irritating. It seems we can't escape ads these days...
  I've seen a few pumps with ads, but only in the form of a sticker or laminated poster advertising premium fuel or some random tat they're selling in the garage shop.
- Australian here we got em too but they are rare.
- never seen it in my home state but driving through some godforsaken Nebraska you see the worst things you can imagine
- You can mute the ads by pressing one of the buttons on the side of the screen
Pumps at Westfalen stations in Germany promote their own payment app, and sometimes snacks in their stores. But no audio, and only adds in pics on the screens.
- Yeah I've seen those types of ads, although only as a sticker or poster by the pump
  Seems like companies these days would force ads into our dreams if they could
- Here, US, I have seen ones that create fake "news" clips that are just pro-petro-industrial propaganda, not just ads. Like I saw one that claimed that solar energy actually releases more greenhouse gasses than "contemporary" petroleum fuels.

One of my most upvoted comments in lemmy is me saying I should be allowed to smash those screens if they play ads.

Your function is to pump my fucking gas if you do anything more than that fuck off

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
Nobody is forcing you to use their pumps.
- How about the entire society designed to be unlivable without a car ? Look, there's a solution we're not seeing here. Every fuel pump is also secretly a flame thrower. It can be used to put the nasty attention stealing machine in its rightful place, the middle of a fire.
- If everybody starts doing it (and trust me they will, it's free money after all) we'll be kinda forced to.
- There are only 2 gas stations in my town that don't have these obnoxious ass pumps and both of them are on the other side of town where I'm most likely to get stabbed by a used heroin needle for my shoes.
  So yeah I'd say I'm being damn near forced.

Don't see ads at the pumps if you stop using gasoline.

Right, you can just see them at the charging station now.
- That's not how charging stations work? 🤷‍♂️

Second button up on the right side is generally the mute button.

I just push the bittons around in a circle motion till I find it
- I accidentally called the attendant for assistance like that once
- How often am I correct?

If QuikTrip ever starts using these you can find me in the local jail after doing some light property damage

Yours doesn't? Every one around me does. There is a mute button, and it has always been labeled, so I just wack mute and look at something else.
- Different cities, likely. Please tell me you don't live in Wichita

Second buttom from the top right side at least mutes them

- It's not always the same button. My Circle K doesn't have those big screens thankfully.
they upgraded the ones near me, haven't found out how to mute them yet.
Never been able to mute any at speedways. I have tried all the tricks that are posted.
- Fork into the speaker works
Works for the old Shell ones.
The button that is worn out to the point of no longer working. After it quit working, I took to staring directly at the security camera while using my free hand to repeatedly punch the screen playing the commercial. I would rate the screen as disappointingly durable. I have an electric car now so I no longer have to tolerate it.