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AutomotiveYSK How to mute gas station video ads (self.YouShouldKnow)

theresamouseinmyhous が 投稿

There should be four buttons on the right hand side of the screen, press the second from the top to mute the ads and pump your gas in peace.

http://imgur.com/a/D7ZIR

Edit for other machines.

The one video ad gas station I've found in my town doesn't have the same layout as this and it's the bottom, right button that mutes the ads.

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[–]apolea 241ポイント242ポイント  (64子コメント)

What the fuck! Where are you from where you see fricking video ads on fuel pumps?

[–]theresamouseinmyhous[S] 118ポイント119ポイント  (22子コメント)

South east US, sizable but not huge city. They annoy the shit out of me.

[–]killubear 40ポイント41ポイント  (2子コメント)

I have also noticed that these pumps seem to actually pump notably slower than non advertising pumps. My gut says it's not coincidence, rather they want as much screen time with you as possible.

[–]Wetbung 12ポイント13ポイント  (1子コメント)

All of the ones I've seen, the video/ audio part is an aftermarket add-on. Maybe they pick the crappiest pump to put it on.

[–]theresamouseinmyhous[S] 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

All the ones I've seen have been built into the pumps. I was looking for info on how to mute the after market ones, but they seem to just be tv screens locked in a steel box with no access to anything. Maybe duct tape over the speakers?

[–]EmilioMolesteves 8ポイント9ポイント  (1子コメント)

Loud and annoying. Thanks!

[–]BobSagetBaseGod 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Especially the "Talk Stoop" ads.

Fucking cancer.

[–]offlightsedge 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

We have them up here in the north east, too. Some kind person actually wrote 'MUTE' in sharpie on the one I used yesterday. Sure, it's technically vandalism, but it saved me having to listen to another advertisement for shit I can't afford and probably don't want anyway.

[–]HotAsAPepper 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Upstate SC here - only a couple places have them in this area, and they are freaking annoying.... Will try your fix. Thanks =)

[–]unintentional_jerk 1ポイント2ポイント  (5子コメント)

Same. Once I'm able to buy gas again, this will come in handy.

[–]theresamouseinmyhous[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (4子コメント)

Have you heard anything about when supply's supposed to come back? Things are getting a bit mad maxish around where I am.

[–]asilenth 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Are you out of gas in your area? I'm confused.

[–]theresamouseinmyhous[S] 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

SE US had a gas line rupture and now there's a pretty big shortage. It's mostly due to panic and should clear up soon, but there are still a bunch of stations that are out of gas and many more that have huge lines.

Here's a link the the story, sorry it autoplays a video

[–]1N54N3M0D3 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

It was crazy in Murfreesboro, but the Kroger near my house ordered a fuckton of gas, and kept gas flow in until 5pm for a few days while most other places were out very quickly.

[–]unintentional_jerk 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Looks like next weekish

[–]IMIndyJones 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

During the day they annoy me, so I like to go at night. Then it just gives me a nice Blade Runner vibe.

[–]Shepards_Conscience 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I saw one of these for the first time a week or two ago. Pensacola, FL here.

[–]McCash34 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh no that's close to me! I hope it doesn't spread.

[–]Canis_Familiaris 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Nashville.

[–]1N54N3M0D3 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Same in Murfreesboro, and I've seen one or two in Smyrna. Haven't seen any in crossville, though.

Most can be muted like op said, too. ^_^

[–]lanismycousin 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Also in the bay area California. Seems to be in most of the am/pms

[–]wrcu 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

NC?

[–]elgavilan 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

"Get ten times fuel points now!"

[–]unknownkoger 15ポイント16ポイント  (4子コメント)

Southern California...these are at every "new" gas station. It's awful

[–]piperiain 14ポイント15ポイント  (3子コメント)

those terrible jimmy fallon jokes....

[–]BobSagetBaseGod 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

"Talk Stoop" - The worst

[–]wayan_nz 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Almost makes you want to drive a smaller car just so you don't have to listen to same joke every 20 seconds.

[–]FANGO 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Or just don't go to gas stations. Here's some cheap lease deals on EVs: http://ev-vin.blogspot.com

[–]SuperSteve737 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

Greater Chicagoland.

[–]mattc286 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

They're everywhere at least from FL to MA. Usually an ad about soft drinks/snacks they sell inside, along with NFL "news" for some reason. Terrible, terrible things.

[–]AtlantaWeddingDJ 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Atlanta

[–]pangea_person 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

All over SoCal

[–]Tsenraem 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Based on these responses, pretty much everywhere (except NJ, of course).

[–]TheBrownWelsh 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Washington state here, live in a small town/city; these fuckers are everywhere. Any gas station that's been renovated in the last 2-3 years has these as far as I can tell.

They are absolutely infuriating. I used to like grooving to whatever shitty music gas stations were blaring, but now I have to listen to screechy crappy "news" and commercials. Only upside is that every now and then they remind me I need to alter my NFL Fantasy lineup.

[–]syuk 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

The only place you're safe is when asleep or taking a goddamn crap.

[–]Nihilistic_dawn 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hell, we have them in WVa. I thought we were supposed to be backwards or something?!?

[–]anotherusername23 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

A few in Atlanta have it, but not a huge amount. I think I've seen it more in rural GA when I travel.

[–]everyoneisthinkinit 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

For once living in a state where you don't pump your own gas is actually paying off.

Oregon rulez. Suck it the rest of Murica.

[–]Platanales 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Florida, I hate those ads. Thanks

[–]Beijing_King 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Yeah. Thank God for this. I get annoyed with those Damn ads when I'm fueling up lolol

[–]astro65 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's called GSTV give it a search. They also do random news and sports bits.

[–]me_and_batman 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Kansas City has a few of these. They are uncommon, but there are enough of them.

[–]stealer0517 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's mostly in/around cities

[–]iodinev3 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Pretty much every gas station in DC

[–]PM_ME_UR_VULTURES 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I see them from time to time in Northern and Central California.

[–]Warpedlord 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Fargo, ND. They're at about half the stations I've been to lately. Crazy annoying.

[–]dominion47 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Saw some in LA last week.

Sports highlights and ads. Neither interested me.

[–]enzothecat 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

CT and NY they are all over too

[–]Lady_Techtroyia 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Northwest USA too..

[–]yety175 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Over the last year they have been popping up in my area

[–]im_gud110 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

There's a few in Mississippi.

[–]teke0884 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

West Michigan here, we have them at the gas station I work at. They're loud as hell too.

[–]Slinkwyde 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I've seen them in Houston maybe once or twice.

[–]PJsAreComfy 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

We have then in MA and NY. Super annoying.

[–]asilenth 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I live in Sarasota, a small to mid sized city on the west coast of Florida. We've had these for a while. I also just took a road trip up and down the east coast and only ran into a few.

[–]bthirsty 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Central Connecticut has almost nothing but these. It's terribly annoying, and I thank OP very much for this post.

[–]Parenklisis 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Rhode Island. edit: not part of New York

[–]Atello 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

California has these, usually at Shell stations.

[–]subjectWarlock 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Northern Virginia suburbs.

[–]cardboardphone 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

All over the USA I have seen them in my travels.

[–]clipsound 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I've only seen a couple of stations here that do it in NY, but I'm sure there's tons all over the east coast. I hate them.

[–]crisisred 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Southern California here, almost every gas station has these now.

[–]esip 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Michigan

[–]DanskJeavlar 82ポイント83ポイント  (5子コメント)

The huge amount of advertising in America baffles me.

[–]sekter 20ポイント21ポイント  (1子コメント)

why? it's what the country is built on now practically lol

[–]indorock 18ポイント19ポイント  (1子コメント)

You should watch TV there sometime. Not only are the amount of ads hard to comprehend, but how like half of them are about pharmaceutical drugs. USA has a drug problem alright, but it's not the kind coming in from Mexico or Colombia.

[–]Banemorth 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's not just the commercials. Product placement in movies and shows themselves is getting more blatant.

[–]Lego_C3PO 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

For what it's worth I live in America and have literally never seen this before.

[–]boing_boing_splat 9ポイント10ポイント  (1子コメント)

Wow did not even know this was a thing! Poor guys :(

[–]katiewestfall 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I live a college town and there are TVs above the pumps that play ads and brief news segments. It's not too annoying.

[–]jama211 15ポイント16ポイント  (3子コメント)

Jesus... are you all living in the idiocracy world?

[–]SidSolis 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's been like this for awhile now. Take me in plz

[–]iSmite 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

This is so weird really. I mean who even came up with this idea to show video ads to theirs customers at a gas stations. What the actual fuck

[–]Kadem2 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I mean, it's not a bad idea from an advertisers perspective. You pretty much have to hang out and watch it if you're pumping gas...

[–]Fiction47 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

They are all over here in hollywood.

[–]zimtastic 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

They're here in the San Francisco Bay Area as well.

[–]Winrarthief 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

/r/latestagecapitalism

[–]unknownkoger 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

This is the first YSK in quite a while that I've found useful. Thanks for posting this

[–]rckymtnrfc 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Different machines are going to have different buttons to press. The one video ad gas station I've found in my town doesn't have the same layout as this and it's the bottom, right button that mutes the ads. It even says "Mute" near the button, so it's not a hidden feature, at least on the model I've seen.

[–]theresamouseinmyhous[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Do you have a picture of it? If so I'll add that one to the OP.

[–]Denroll 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

I've been to the occasional gas station with these ads. They usually have a mute button that is broken.

I don't advocate vandalism, but if I happened upon someone taking a hammer to one of these speakers... I'd become really interested in what was happening in the other direction.

[–]McGuirk808 22ポイント23ポイント  (10子コメント)

Better: don't pump gas at stations with pump ads. It encourages them.

[–]loneblustranger 19ポイント20ポイント  (2子コメント)

Yeah. I've never heard of these, but I'm thinking that it would go down like a lead balloon here in Canada. If station A put them in, people would just go fill up at station B and so on.

Now, if they offered something like "watch an ad for $0.05/L discount", hell yeah you can bet people would go to the station with the ads. Of course the ads would eventually become commonplace and the discounts would disappear, but...

[–]iSmite 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Just like what happened with self serve gas stations.

[–]EpicWolverine 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

What happened with self serve gas stations?

[–]mrbig012 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

Have to drive pretty far out of my way to get to one without these ads sadly enough 😖

[–]Thors_Goat 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Where do you live? I'm west coast and never heard of this bullshit before.

[–]beet111 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

not really. people will use them whether or not they have ads. most people don't give a shit.

[–]Jon76 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

No sane person gives a shit. I have more important shit to think about than how much I wish there were no tiny tv ads in gas stations.

[–]bigvahe33 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yup. There are two types of gas stations I dont pump at: ones that play ads, and ones that charge you when you use a debit card.

[–]AISim 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Trouble is, here on the east coast, all of the gas stations have them.

[–]throwaway_for_keeps -2ポイント-1ポイント  (0子コメント)

They're slightly annoying, but what else is going on while I'm pumping gas? It's not like they make you watch the ad before you can start pumping.

Back in the day, you pump your gas and just stand there waiting for it to finish, maybe clean your windows if you want.

Nowadays, you pump your gas and just stand there waiting for it to finish, maybe clean your windows if you want, while some crap plays in the background.

[–]pm_me_your_kindwords 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Every time I get gas I will praise the name of /u/theresamouseinmyhous

[–]CynicalDick 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

One time I ended up at a gas station that had this monstrosity. I've never been back.

[–]anonymau5 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

One of these Tucker's were blaring the Friends theme song at me and holding my hand over the speaker did nothing. Thanks Wawa

[–]mtwrite4 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Maybe I'm too cautious or something, but I think that people should pay attention when they are pumping gas. One time I used an old pump, and it kept flowing after my tank was full.

[–]Boostflow 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

When at a gas station I'm only gonna touch what I absolutely have to

[–]Coldf1re 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Another reason to like New Jersey's full service laws.

[–]fdtc_skolar 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's nice how they have added another feature that could spark around gas fumes.

[–]jan 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

One more reason to never buy a car

[–]vmerc 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Michigan here. Ours are encased in plexiglass and metal on top of the pump with no access to any buttons. :(

[–]BobSagetBaseGod 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

United Oil and most (if not all) Arco gas stations have them.

I see these all over the place in California (Los Angeles).

[–]marimoy 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I am so happy that we don't have those here. Good to know for when I go stateside.

[–]Runaway_5 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Makes me want to douse myself in gasoline and end it sometimes. Fucking ads in the sky, at the gas station...ugh

[–]Durrok 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

I live in Central Indiana and there are literally two gas stations within 30 miles of me that don't have these things blaring.

THANK YOU!

[–]theresamouseinmyhous[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Get a label maker and label this as the mute button on every machine.

[–]Jillian59 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

oh my thank you. I hate the ads and the weather reports and the Jimmy Fallon clips. It is just noisy and annoying. Thank you kind Redditor!

[–]wilibie88 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

If so I'll add that one to the occasional gas station video ads don't go to gas stations.

[–]Capop 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Firmware writer is gonna change that button to a, X10 volume increase.

[–]HairlessSasquatch 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Never seen this before in or around toronto

[–]syuk -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

How has it got this far?

Can you drive off without paying and just say you fell under the spell of the advertisement and had to go buy whatever tat it was pushing.

[–]whosetophat 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh my god thank you for this. I hate those things.

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[–]bmrdriver 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Usually it's some lane mainstem media brainwashing stuff on it.

[–]SyntheticMemory 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Down here in Texas. Someone put their fist through the box and ripped out the speaker at the one nearby my house. It was somewhat different than this, basically just a TV inside a plastic box on the pump.

Felt nice to see, I felt like that the first time I was pumping gas and it all of a sudden tried to convince me I should buy a new car at MAXIMUM VOLUME.

[–]FANGO 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

An even better way to mute gas station video ads: don't go to gas stations.

Here's a great list of lease deals on EVs. They're super cheap, and even cheaper when you take into account the money you save by never going to a gas station again (for example, I pay under $6 of electricity to go 240 miles, and my area has one of the more expensive electricity rates in the country): http://ev-vin.blogspot.com

[–]geozza -2ポイント-1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I wouldn't mind something to watch while filling up

[–]Yankee_Fever -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

They play the weather and some sport center shit in between ads in new York. Biggest waste of money since 7/11 having iPads on the front counter

[–]ItsAMeRyan -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thank you! Those ads suck and tend to just repeat every 15 seconds.

[–]ItsAMeRyan -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thank you! Those ads suck and tend to just repeat every 15 seconds.