Seen in a SF Muni station
Edit to add: Jeez, relax. I was on my way home from a doctor’s appointment and saw that ad. It made me chuckle so I posted it here.
If seeing this post really upsets you, take some deep breaths and keep scrolling. With any luck, you’ll have fully healed in a couple of days.
Mod here . I found this amusing, and op is good sport, so fuck y'all I'm leaving it up. 😁
Appreciate this.
That's how classic Reddit was for me.
Mods who are extremely rigid to the rules had to exist when the spammers went crazy. But with smaller communities, modding should be based on vibes. You get better conversations that way.
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This is the type of ad I absolutely don't mind because they aren't for absolutely soulless companies that will fuck your grandma and then sue you for emotional damages afterwards.
Lol, people have post-reddit PTSD if they think you're a shill. Maybe if/when Lemmy hits the mainstream but man, we're so off the radar most marketers have no idea this place exists.
It's a waste of money unless you're advertising something for Linux and/or communism... which would be a bit of a paradox, lol
If I ever start selling any software I'll gladly market it on Lemmy, but only because it would be a privacy preserving alternative to some enshittified existing service.
Mullvad disabled port forwarding. Bad for torrents. That was when everyone I know stopped using it.
Not being able to host my web apps made it a no for me
Hosting a website over a VPN is not a great idea anyways. You should use something like Cloudflares proxied domains or tunnels. Your users will get far better performance and you'll see significantly less load on your network.
It would be holepunching through (excluding apps but at the port level)
But the apps are for myself
Still a good VPN for other stuff
Yeah, a service doesn't need to meet everyone's use case to be good. Allowing port-forwarding meant that the VPN was used for crimes that put Mullvad at risk. Hosting websites and torrents is good and all, but it is not the hill to die on with privacy.
If they were secretly making them public, that'd be an issue, but they're just denying people the option.
Mullvad is one of those services that just works and I never worry about whether my server's connection has fallen over. It's fairly priced, transparent, and doesn't abuse my privacy or trust. They never try to lure me into buying more/bigger/better like pretty much every company does now. Much like my water supply, I literally forget that the underlying solution exists because it so reliably does it's job.
Feeling the same about Tailscale recently, but this comment is bait to find out if I'm wrong! Not paying yet but considering it.
Tailscale is a VPN in the classic sense, I e. to build a secure network over an insecure one. Mullvad is a service to hide your public IP address and switch from having to trust your ISP to having to trust Mullvad.
I too have a subscription to one of the latter services, but I always find them sketchy
Yes I know, that's why I use both for different purposes
I mean whether TailScale is more similar to Mullvad in business model and customer centrism, or whether the early signs of enshittification are already there (I haven't seen any red flags to date)
Ok, I don't really know why I wrote all that because it was pretty clear from context you know the difference. Hopefully it helps others.
For me, Mullvad isn't an option because they don't have port forwarding anymore.
I found it useful, thanks for posting!
They never try to lure me into buying more/bigger/better like pretty much every company does now.
Windscribe enters the chat.
Biggest mistake I ever made was signing up for them. just the constant daily emails trying to be "funny" to get me to return.
We've been getting ads from them in Seattle too
I was surprised to see Mullvad ads on the Link. Pleasantly surprised, at that!
They were on Boston's T stations as well a couple months ago. Maybe they target cities specifically, I haven't seen any outside tech industry centers.
Saw some in London last month.
It's reached a point where the government is pushing for websites to card you before you can enter.
Women apps were giving data so the government can arrest women for abortion-like behavior.
We're already at the point where privacy/anonymity is the only way to visit the internet.
Mullvad is great, only VPN i'll ever use. I'm just a random number to them. no emails, no names, nothing. Hell I can even just pay them in cash if I wanted. Their service has improved too. on some wifi networks it would take me a couple minutes to connect but now it's instant. Soon as I boot into my WM just "mullvad connect" in the terminal and I'm good to go.
Honestly that sounds great. I'm kind of annoyed how often NordVPN keeps emailing me and trying to upsell me on the daily.
The service is fine overall. But the nonstop promotion, along with it being a US company that can easily just give all their info to the US government, makes me wanting to switch pronto.
I don't think NordVPN is American. They just market heavily via American YouTubers. It has Lithuanian roots and is incorporated in The Netherlands according to Wikipedia.
They should hire you!
I pay for mine with vouchers, just as convenient as a credit card as long as you renew ahead of time, and just as anonymous as cash.
Wish I could buy them somewhere other than amazon though.
Mullard VPN marketing dept has a Lemmy account?
Or just a San Francisco resident
these ads are everywhere on BART (+Muni I guess) right now. (As far as ads go, they're pretty good I guess
and no, I don't even use them, much less work for them.)
I love Mullvad. ❤️
I'm going back to Europe for a few months for a visit. I was looking at other VPNs and they were offering me cheap discounts but I'd have to sign up for 2 years or some shit. Mullvad was very straightforward in their pricing and I was able to generate the VPN config and I have it installed on my travel router really easily.
i knew mullvad was an absolute banger when i made an account. biggest green flag ever, radioactive green.
Jokes on you, I already pay for Mullvad. AD fucking failure
love mullvad wish they where clearer explaing how vpns work and the downsides but still love mullvad
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