Any gas pump that starts playing an ad when you start pumping gas should be set on fire with the manager who approved the decision standing within the blast radius.
Then put them next to it. Whoever is responsible for signing off on that deal.
It shouldn't be considered a "no brainier". We're there to purchase gasoline in exchange for money. Our mere presence somewhere doesn't grant people the right to shove shit into our eyes and ears. It's an attack on our personal solace, and I fucking hate it. It should be illegal. It seriously diminishes our happiness and sense of peace. "It's just business" is a poor fucking excuse for making people's lives worse in exchange for a little money for you personally. It's amoral, and we need to start punishing that attitude. It has gone way too far already, and it will continue going deeper into the realms of intrusion until society's attitudes about it begin to change.
I just wanna say that as someone who designs user interfaces for a living, I always do whatever I can to play with UI/UX in my normal life.
At a gas station, playing ads, I always start tapping and holding the little buttons near the screen. Almost always holding 2 across from each other goes into a mode where it shuts up, and continues pumping. Plus it's like a fun little arms race of a game for me.
Tangentially related, but I've had a "Tap here to accept the Samsung terms of service" notification for years now. I always swipe it away. I swear they always show it right after I had a bunch of other notifications to make me more likely to tap it. I have thus made it my life's mission to never accept it.
When I had a Samsung they'd always pop that up when I was driving and needed to access the GPS, so I never had time to actually see what it was trying to make me agree to, and it wouldn't let me proceed until I did it. That's actually one of the reasons I switched off of Samsung products.
Oh, originally it was because the ads and trash on their smart TVs. But then I keep hearing about build quality on appliances so I expanded the scope beyond TVs to everything. This phone thing is just another example of anti-consumer practices (though not as bad as some of the others).
And the ability to disable categories of notifications so that these "offers" can never pester me again is one of the greatest intentions of the digital age.
Edit: for everyone downvoting, I had some very legitimate reasons, but they are too personally identifiable when all put together and I’d rather not end up with my name tied to my account.
Not the user you asked however I moved from Android to iOS a few months ago. Before this, I have tended to switch between platforms because I’m incredibly picky. Perhaps I believe the grass is always greener.
Most recently, my young Pixel 8 Pro had severe modem problems. There was a rash of bad updates that impacted me. I felt insulted being unable to use my phone when I needed it. I looked at Samsung, but I don’t like their brand of bloatware. iOS inspired confidence.
I took the L and sold my Pixel at significant loss to get something working now to stay in contact with my family. I love Pixel, but man do I feel sour about my connectivity problems on it.