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The pumps have little screens on the that play adds and yell at you. They used to just use speakers to play the adds to the whole complex, but now they’re right in your face. There’s lots of surveillance, too, since they want to be able to prosecute you if you somehow manage to get gas without paying. It makes sabotaging the screens complicated.
Also from what I’ve seen online some of the gas pumps have switched from conventional speakers to DML panel speakers so you can’t destroy the speaker cones.
yeah, I genuinely thought about trying to figure out where the essential components of those were so I could pop a little hole in them with a drill but I decided to stop driving for like a year instead
If you put your ear next to the panel you can probably find the location of the exciter on the panel, as the noise will get louder closer to the exciter, and then drill though the panel and exciter.
We need a commercial point of sale sabotage manual. Like we need to comb through the repair manuals for all these things, all these advertising machines, and determine how they can be disabled quickly, quietly, and with minimal evidence by the “end user”.
That’s one of the reasons some advertising and ATMs have switched to panel speakers, there’s no requirement for vent holes for the sound to escape, so it’s pretty much impossible to vandalise. A physical part of the gas pump or ATM becomes the speaker, by being energised by an audio exciter stcuk to the back side of it. If you see something producing sound with no obvious speaker holes, it’s probably using a DML exciter. It’s actually a very interesting technology, a shame it’s being used in advertising.
That truly sounds annoying. So what next? Ads on the screen of your cars while stuck in traffic?
