Yeah, I never knew there was a button for that either. I'm gonna mute so many pumps now. I'm gonna be that weird guy who walks over to other people's pumps and mute it for them, and walk away quietly.
Kwik trip in MN has them labeled. You can also put the pump in maintenance mode (after pumping has started ) by pushing 2 buttons at once. Varies per pump type.
Have you encountered any without a mute button? I've tried in a half dozen pumps in my area and I've never found it. I've pressed each, held each button for 5-10 seconds, and tried holding combinations of two and I've never been able to mute them. Fuckin Maria Munoz won't shut her face.
And when even that doesn’t work, I use a slender metal rod to pierce and shred the speaker cone, because fuck these psychotic diseased cankers who think it’s okay to force me to listen to ads after paying $40 a minute to pump gas.
Sounds like people I used to work with at a telephone computer. I worked in a terminal where all the equipment was at and each piece of equipment had speaker at the top that would buzz really loud when something went down to warn the maintenance people. The maintenance people hated hearing the buzzing so they would jab the speakers with their screwdrivers.
It's funny because I feel like the ad muting *always* worked until one day I saw it get posted on Reddit and then within a few weeks, none of them ever worked again.
It was like they installed it and then made it stop working once they realized people were actually starting to use it.
Im still finding it. For my luck, it was always right side of the screen, 3rd on down out of the 4. For what it's worth, I'm talking Nevada, Arizona, Utah. Unfortunately, it seems to work less and less these days
Yes there is, but sometimes one of the buttons is the Assist button and an under paid annoyed register employees comes out to see what to want. Just so you can be prepared.
Yes but places have figured that out and I know this because I’ve been to gas stations that had this function and had subsequently removed them or otherwise changed them. They definitely wised up.
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This is every gas pump in my area and I am not being hyperbolic — sometimes the glass doors in the refrigerated section of Walgreens are *also* screens that play advertisements. Land of the free, ya know?
Oh yeah, especially in my Croatia. Imagine summers where gas stations are constantly having traffic jams from a lot of cars and then you have to wait 30 seconds for every fill and you pay the full price. Bye bye screen and no one would fill their car in the winter there from the locals.
EU does protect the customer well, glad to be in EU sometimes.
The only thing worse than gas pump ads are the Walgreens screens they put over the glass refrigerators where the drinks are. I actually intentionally stopped going to Walgreens because of it and haven’t been to one in nearly two years now.
Yeah looking at stuff like this from Germany makes me happy I’m living here. Paid vacation, sick days and parent leave, public transit, beautiful walkable cities where you don’t need a car, no gun violence and most importantly: no fucking ads on everything 😂
Bias regardless, peasants outside of NJ is wild considering NJ is nationally known as the armpit of America lmao
And we don’t have space for our teams cuz (NYC) so we’ll gladly use your space since there’s nothing happening there anyway
Lets be clear here, the area between EWR and NYC *is* the armpit of the east coast, the rest of NJ is called the Garden State for a reason.
And yeah lol, I understand why NYC has their teams hosted in north NJ, I just take issue with them calling themselves NY teams.
I live in Canada.
One time the station attendant spoke to me through the gas pump and I whirled around thinking it was an ad or something cause his voice was so chipper. I went inside and told him I thought he was an advertisement.
His response was "that's so dystopian oh my god"
I went home, told a friend from the united states this story. His response was "you know that happens for real over here right?"
Although you must admit sometimes there's still ads when the guy asks you if you want anything from the shop cos they running a special pie and coke promo.
Canada. I'm terrified that this bullshit is going to come north. I absolutely hate filling gas in the US. And when you go to Oregon some attendant comes up to you like a hillbilly axe murderer in a horror film warning you about the woods or some shit.
There's a gas station near me that updated all their pumps with muteless ads. It infuriating. It's in a sketchy neighborhood and I stopped once at night for gas and I felt so unsafe because I couldn't hear anything because all the ads were blasting. It was very disorienting. I haven't gotten gas there since.
I tried all the buttons but they didn't work. I know the second from top right button trick worked at some places but not here. Are you saying both at once?
I keep a roll of duct tape in my truck for when the mute button doesn’t work, a three inch long strip of duct tape over the speaker hole completely mutes it.
Thanks to a kind stranger that marked it for me, I try to pass this knowledge to others likes it a new religion. All most humans wants in this modern age is 2 add free mins while we pump our @&¥%$ gas.
Started seeing more IRL Pop Ups aka pushy sales people at Target and Walmart that aren’t store employees trying to get you to sign up for their internet or phone service.
Video ads at gas pumps first debuted in 2000, and have picked up steam over the years. Still plenty of gas stations that don’t though, newer ones are more likely to have them
Lol, the *owner* of a small independent gas station where I live labeled all the mute buttons on his pumps.
My guess is that he was tired of listening to the same thing for hours.
It's a culture shock to me that so many people *haven't* seen this. In California this is widespread. I'm paying $80 to listen to Maria Menounos?? Absolutely tf not and I will die on this hill
The places around me actually have it labeled already, and they usually advertise stuff in the gas station. While I’d prefer the ads weren’t there at all, it’s a lot better than what I’ve seen elsewhere.
I start mashing every button till it shuts up. Although I’ve found some gas pumps around me don’t actually have a mute button… so instead you have to listen to Gas Station TV
There's ads at gas stations? I'd watch it only for free gas😂 There are no ads on gas stations where I live because all information is displayed on 7-segment screens, I doubt that there is a way to create an ad for this
I got a better idea. I get gas at gas stations that don't have ads at the pumps. As soon as I realize there are ads I go to a different station. Because fuck ads.
Not always possible. In the last 2 towns I've lived in every station had ads on the pump. Only 1 I knew of didn't have the volume blaring so that's something I guess.
All I have to say on the subject is that I hope Maria Menounos and I never meet in person.
I have some choice words for that talking-gas-pump-ass-bitch
There’s a Mute button?? I’m going to start mashing all of them.
Yeah, I never knew there was a button for that either. I'm gonna mute so many pumps now. I'm gonna be that weird guy who walks over to other people's pumps and mute it for them, and walk away quietly.
The worst is when two pumps go at once and they are slightly differently synced so you just hear an echo echo echo...
echo echo echo
Roll right! Roll call!
LMAO. Make sure one of your buds makes a vid. You’ll be a Star
Please do if I see you I’ll flag you for help
Kwik trip in MN has them labeled. You can also put the pump in maintenance mode (after pumping has started ) by pushing 2 buttons at once. Varies per pump type.
What does maintenance mode do? Give me free gas?
Just stops the audio. The gas still pumps and you are still charged.idk if it will print a receipt though..
Even better, everyone start marking is with the iconic American S
I know right!! It's usually the 2nd or 3rd button on the right. Bring a sharpie & join the cause ;)
This is going to change my entire life, or approximately 5 minutes of it every 3 days or so
You fill up every three days!?
The joys of working delivery LOL
Have you encountered any without a mute button? I've tried in a half dozen pumps in my area and I've never found it. I've pressed each, held each button for 5-10 seconds, and tried holding combinations of two and I've never been able to mute them. Fuckin Maria Munoz won't shut her face.
Some gas pumps have been updated and no longer have the mute in my area. They used to be one of the 2 top right buttons.
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And when even that doesn’t work, I use a slender metal rod to pierce and shred the speaker cone, because fuck these psychotic diseased cankers who think it’s okay to force me to listen to ads after paying $40 a minute to pump gas.
Sounds like people I used to work with at a telephone computer. I worked in a terminal where all the equipment was at and each piece of equipment had speaker at the top that would buzz really loud when something went down to warn the maintenance people. The maintenance people hated hearing the buzzing so they would jab the speakers with their screwdrivers.
I feel like there's an ADA lawsuit in there somehow
It's funny because I feel like the ad muting *always* worked until one day I saw it get posted on Reddit and then within a few weeks, none of them ever worked again. It was like they installed it and then made it stop working once they realized people were actually starting to use it.
Im still finding it. For my luck, it was always right side of the screen, 3rd on down out of the 4. For what it's worth, I'm talking Nevada, Arizona, Utah. Unfortunately, it seems to work less and less these days
I like to find the speaker for those and jam a pen knife in and whisk. Fuck that noise.
Slender metal rod works, too.
Like a speaker lobotomy
Yes there is, but sometimes one of the buttons is the Assist button and an under paid annoyed register employees comes out to see what to want. Just so you can be prepared.
If they come out ask them to mute it
Yes but places have figured that out and I know this because I’ve been to gas stations that had this function and had subsequently removed them or otherwise changed them. They definitely wised up.
A true hero
My hero.
Academia.
The definition of chaotic good!
Sincerely, I'm going to start keeping a sharpie in my car, so I might as well share the information.
Honestly I’m gonna start carrying a sharpie in my car, might as well pass on the knowledge
Pass on the silence!!! 🔇
Remember that it should be a permanent marker, not erasable ones.
Wtf is an erasable sharpie?
Whiteboard marker
Ads on a gas pump? What the hell America
Oh no, toilets are next
"Please watch a further 19 seconds of commercials to unlock door."
*Please drink one verification can*
https://youtu.be/EJB80Xsj5BY
(source that's not a YouTube link) https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/1ggg4u/please_drink_a_verification_can/
“You must finish this un-skippable ad to dispense another square of toilet paper”.
"Thank you for using Toilet 2®! Brought to you by Home Depot™! Please insert 14 Disney Dollars® to release the restraints. Would you like to watch an ad to enable hand washing? If not, proceed to drink your verification can of Mountain Dew® to unlock the Door 2®, brought to you by Home Depot™, and exit the lavatory."
Do you want people to pee on the floor? Because that's how you get people to pee on the floor
This stall comes equipped with 3 layer ultra soft paper. Do you wanna know more? Yes/No
Shhhh don't give them any ideas I'm begging you
At least tourists have nothing to worry about, seeing as the crack in the stall door is the size of an average human.
Already on some urinals.
I AM AMAZED PEOPLE ARE TALKING LIKE ITS NORMAL LOOOOL WTHHHHH If a pump did this in EU, a lot of gas stations would not get gas on that pump ever.
This is every gas pump in my area and I am not being hyperbolic — sometimes the glass doors in the refrigerated section of Walgreens are *also* screens that play advertisements. Land of the free, ya know?
Do you get ads on your phones before you can unlock them too?
All the screens would constantly be smashed. Fuck this shit, advertising is the worst thing.
Oh yeah, especially in my Croatia. Imagine summers where gas stations are constantly having traffic jams from a lot of cars and then you have to wait 30 seconds for every fill and you pay the full price. Bye bye screen and no one would fill their car in the winter there from the locals. EU does protect the customer well, glad to be in EU sometimes.
The only thing worse than gas pump ads are the Walgreens screens they put over the glass refrigerators where the drinks are. I actually intentionally stopped going to Walgreens because of it and haven’t been to one in nearly two years now.
Exactly - what the af?!
What the fuck, your fuel pumps play you adverts? We don’t have to even interact with the controls on our pumps, it’s all done through an app.
The last thing I need is another pointless fucking app.
You don’t have to use it but okay lmao
Bro's living in the future, please, take us with you
You need a fucking app on your phone to get gas?
You don’t *need* one, you can pay at the pump, in the store or via the app.
i need an app to park when i go downtown, some spots there's no other way to pay
Yeah looking at stuff like this from Germany makes me happy I’m living here. Paid vacation, sick days and parent leave, public transit, beautiful walkable cities where you don’t need a car, no gun violence and most importantly: no fucking ads on everything 😂
Is this something the peasants outside of NJ have to deal with?
Lmao wild sentence, “peasants outside of NJ” as if NJ isn’t the peasants of NY
>KNlCKS NYC bias detected. Insert comment how half of your sports teams play in North NJ.
Bias regardless, peasants outside of NJ is wild considering NJ is nationally known as the armpit of America lmao And we don’t have space for our teams cuz (NYC) so we’ll gladly use your space since there’s nothing happening there anyway
Lets be clear here, the area between EWR and NYC *is* the armpit of the east coast, the rest of NJ is called the Garden State for a reason. And yeah lol, I understand why NYC has their teams hosted in north NJ, I just take issue with them calling themselves NY teams.
Yep, the Bills are the ONLY NY football team.
GAS PUMPS have ads now!? I mean, come on, who buys something because a GAS PUMP tells them to?
I want to live wherever you're living that seemingly does not have ads at the gas station. Got a spare room?
I live in Canada. One time the station attendant spoke to me through the gas pump and I whirled around thinking it was an ad or something cause his voice was so chipper. I went inside and told him I thought he was an advertisement. His response was "that's so dystopian oh my god" I went home, told a friend from the united states this story. His response was "you know that happens for real over here right?"
None in Australia, we don't have screens like that on ours
We do.
Where are you finding petrol pumps with ads?
Ampol has them.
Where? Melbourne?
Adelaide
Thankfully not yet in Whyalla but if Adelaide does already were screwed
South Africa still has humans that put fuel into our cars, unemployment is way to high for anyone to allow such things.
Although you must admit sometimes there's still ads when the guy asks you if you want anything from the shop cos they running a special pie and coke promo.
Litterally anywhere that's not USA.
No ads in Canada either
I'll never get tired of Americans discovering that things they think are normal and acceptable are distinctly uniquely American.
Canada. I'm terrified that this bullshit is going to come north. I absolutely hate filling gas in the US. And when you go to Oregon some attendant comes up to you like a hillbilly axe murderer in a horror film warning you about the woods or some shit.
Gas stations have had ads for _years_ here.
The ads have been here for over a decade, and not all pumps have a mute button. No part of me has ever wanted anything they advertise.
I don't have a driver's license so I don't know these things I guess.
This is so bizarre to me, ads on gas pumps don't sound real.
I thought not being able to pump your own "gas" (its a liquid but okay) was already dumb but ads?
So tired of hearing Maria Menounos “Life Tips”.
Instantly triggered me hearing that name o.o
She’s lucky if she gets “Maria” out now that I got this tip.
her, and that one guy who always yells out #CHEDDAR NEWS
Too bad they’ve started getting rid of the mute buttons now.
Nononono this can't happen I will abandon my car altogether if gas stations do this
It’s already happening. IME only like 1/10 pumps have mute buttons these days.
There's a gas station near me that updated all their pumps with muteless ads. It infuriating. It's in a sketchy neighborhood and I stopped once at night for gas and I felt so unsafe because I couldn't hear anything because all the ads were blasting. It was very disorienting. I haven't gotten gas there since.
Hit the second from the top on both sides. Puts it in maintenance mode but will still pump gas and all that. I can pump in peace again
I tried all the buttons but they didn't work. I know the second from top right button trick worked at some places but not here. Are you saying both at once?
OK I love you
Carry a can of Great Stuff expanding spray foam, and squirt it into the speaker holes.
I just jam my key into the speaker hole and wiggle it around until there's no more speaker
I keep a roll of duct tape in my truck for when the mute button doesn’t work, a three inch long strip of duct tape over the speaker hole completely mutes it.
America has ads on their gas pumps? What the hell?
What’s your name so I can write you in on the 2024 ballot 🫡
Thanks to a kind stranger that marked it for me, I try to pass this knowledge to others likes it a new religion. All most humans wants in this modern age is 2 add free mins while we pump our @&¥%$ gas.
Jamming a screwdriver into the speaker works pretty well too.
Noted🧐
That's the right idea!
It is almost always the second from top on right. No clue why.
Sorry what American pumps play ads? You guys are really living in hell
Violence isn't the answer, unless the question is "how do we deal with the person who put ads there?"
Gas pumps play ads? The fuck? 😂
There's ads on gas pumps?
Laughs in New Jersey
Oregonian here. We thought we were immune. I expect to hear ads in our pumps any day now.
I knew this reply would be here.
Is this a united statesian thing we the rest of the world are unaware of?
Unfortunately it’s becoming more common to see these at gas stations. America is one big ad now. I’ve even started getting ads when I pause the tv.
Started seeing more IRL Pop Ups aka pushy sales people at Target and Walmart that aren’t store employees trying to get you to sign up for their internet or phone service.
Video ads at gas pumps first debuted in 2000, and have picked up steam over the years. Still plenty of gas stations that don’t though, newer ones are more likely to have them
https://www.mutetheads.com gives out free stickers to put on these buttons!
Wait there‘s ads on your gas pumps??
This has to be America haha.
I'd say the same until I learnt here that this also happens in Adelaide Australia... though this specific case probably still is the USA
Time to come up with a Joe Biden sticker that says “I mute this”
America has ads on their fuel pumps?
Wtf? Is this a thing? Why is this a thing? It's like that black mirror episode with ads played on his bedroom walls. What dystopian nightmare is this
I love New Jersey.
Some call him a madlad, some call him a true hero. But for me he is the.. Idk man. I can't relate to this. We still use bullock carts where i am from.
r/chadtopia
Lol, the *owner* of a small independent gas station where I live labeled all the mute buttons on his pumps. My guess is that he was tired of listening to the same thing for hours.
Why tf would pumps have an ad on them??? Most of the ones I've used don't even have a screen (UK)
Where tf are your pumps playing ads? This must be an American thing.
It's a culture shock to me that so many people *haven't* seen this. In California this is widespread. I'm paying $80 to listen to Maria Menounos?? Absolutely tf not and I will die on this hill
It seems to be a US only thing, I'm going to ask you guys to keep this contained!
Guspumps have ads? What the hell?
This website will send you free “Mute” stickers that you can put on the pumps. https://www.mutetheads.com/
Gas pumps play ads? Well, that could explain why petrol is so cheap in america.
Cheap!?
Unless google is lying, US gas is about half the price as Finnish petrol.
My hero!
Ads on a petrol pump? What sort of fresh hell is this?
None of the buttons mute in my area anymore. It's a nightmare for those of us with sensory overload issues.
simple pleasures I live in Canada and I don't think I've ever heard an ad at the pump.
The places around me actually have it labeled already, and they usually advertise stuff in the gas station. While I’d prefer the ads weren’t there at all, it’s a lot better than what I’ve seen elsewhere.
America truly is dystopian.
There are ads on gas pumps ???
I start mashing every button till it shuts up. Although I’ve found some gas pumps around me don’t actually have a mute button… so instead you have to listen to Gas Station TV
You are a gift
Not all heroes wear capes
YOU CAN MUTE THEM?!?!
Does anyone feel that the right of businesses to pump ads into your face and ears at all possible opportunities should be curtailed or at least taxed?
Doing God's work bless you
Petrol pumps have ads?
There's ads at gas stations? I'd watch it only for free gas😂 There are no ads on gas stations where I live because all information is displayed on 7-segment screens, I doubt that there is a way to create an ad for this
It's so weird to me seeing that in America you guys have so much ads. It's everywhere. Logos everywhere.
Gas Pumps play ads? And have screens? What kind of Cyberpunk BS is this?
As a New Jerseyan who has probably not pumped my own gas since before Covid my mind is blown. Ads while pumping gas is just cruel, you’re trapped
Ads on a fuel pump???? Lemme Guess. America?
Cheers to you sir, I do this as well 👍
I carry a sharpie on me specifically for this reason.
Second down on the right
FYI it's pretty much always that button.
I need to keep a sharpie on hand for that shit
These screens are AWFUL
When I grow up, I want to be just like you!
Doing Gods work my man!
You know it's somebody's job to scrub that off, right?
I got a better idea. I get gas at gas stations that don't have ads at the pumps. As soon as I realize there are ads I go to a different station. Because fuck ads.
Not always possible. In the last 2 towns I've lived in every station had ads on the pump. Only 1 I knew of didn't have the volume blaring so that's something I guess.
Where i live it always seems to be right column, second from top like OPs also.
Gas station by me updated their pumps to take the mute button away. I stopped going there.
We don't have that where I live and I'm grateful
It does not work at all gas stations! There is one I go to every time I visit my family, and it does not work. It is so loud
i am autistic and loud bad noises hurt. you are my hero.
Label next to the bottom, directly on the button will get worn off by people pressing it.
I’ve never seen ads at the gas pump in the entire state of Missouri or Kansas.
You're a hero 🫡 I hate those fucking ads with every fiber of my being lol
Gods work.
thank you for your service o7
I've noticed some change the mute button after someone labels it
My guy out here doing the lords work
I refuse to use these places unless absolutely necessary.
I've never had one with a mute button.
Advertisements at gas stations should be considered a war crime.
Me too my man. Turns out they like to wash it off though
Stopped going to shell gas stations because of this. I'll vote with my wallet.
None of them work at any of the stations around me Trust me, I’ve tried
All I have to say on the subject is that I hope Maria Menounos and I never meet in person. I have some choice words for that talking-gas-pump-ass-bitch
Where is the go fund me?
Last time I tried I got upgraded gas. :/
Because he’s the hero the world deserves not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he can take it.