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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.

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never seen it in my home state but driving through some godforsaken Nebraska you see the worst things you can imagine

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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.

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You can mute the ads by pressing one of the buttons on the side of the screen

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Most have disabled that now. I have only found one pump around here that I can still mute. I used to put tape over the speakers to muffle it, but most play out of the screen like a phone now.

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Yup, i havent been able to mute in a long time. Tried all the buttons, multiple buttons at once, etc. The worst ones are the ones blasting whatever that stupid “fuel pump show” is that talks about what’s going on in the pop world with “famous” people ive never even heard of, or stupid “life hacks” that arent…

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5 points

Australian here we got em too but they are rare.

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There’s some around me in the US, but they click on while you’re in the middle of pumping gas with the most annoying voice and it’s loud as hell. I don’t go to those stations if I can help it.

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Hopefully they stay rare.

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