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My local gas stations just play ads on the payment screen. There was a mute button (usually top right, even if it was unlabled) but some have disabled that. I keep a note of those who do and have stopped going there.
Remember folks, Advertisment is theft and vote with your wallet.
For EV it‘s not a thing, is it?
No because you just plug in and walk off or sit in your car, I can't think of any sane person that would spend money on advertising on an EV charger
It could end up similar to the gas pump where whatever payment system is there will play ads before you pay for the electricity. You can even pay extra to skip the ads.
Shell has/had charging points that are attached to like 8 foot tall digital billboards. At one point they were playing tiktok lifehack content on them, presumably because nobody wanted to buy space.
Yes and no...
Yes, you can just walk away, but your car is there for longer.
If its like the chargers at my local food shop, they are plastered with bigger and louder ads, but as before, go do other things.
If its a super-chaeger on the highway, your sorta stuck there.
EV chargers are a significantly more connected station.
At worst you sit in the car and play whatever on the car screen or your phone for the 20 minutes to 80%
How is advertisement theft?
It's someone else selling your time/attention/quiet peace without your consent so I guess you could sort of see that as theft. In the same way that kidnapping is theft of your freedom, but then almost everything is theft if you word it right.
This is correct, it is a linguistic stretch, but it gets my feelings across and is short and quipy.
It definitely isn’t theft.
It’s annoying as fuck, disregards all forms of consent, and is borderline harassment and a violation of privacy.
I don’t see how it’s theft.
I'd be fine with the payment screen ads. I don't look at it anyway