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.
All I have to say to these commenters suggesting OP is a shill:
Chill out and drink a nice, refreshing Dr. Pepper to calm your nerves.
^this message brought to you by Carl's Jr. and the Ad Council^
This also made me chuckle. 10/10 comment.
Speaking of Dr. Pepper, try the Strawberries & Cream Zero Sugar flavor, it's bomb
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.
11/10 mod behavior
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
linux/communism is mostly a package deal these days
i'd just like to interject for a moment, what you're calling linux/communism is actually gnu/linux/communism. or something. idk, i really don't want to see walls of text by richard stallman here.
My fucking lord I didn’t laugh at any of the parent comments…. But GNU xD
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.
i knew mullvad was an absolute banger when i made an account. biggest green flag ever, radioactive green.
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!
When Tailscale turns to shit then we have Netbird as an alternative
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.
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.
love mullvad wish they where clearer explaing how vpns work and the downsides but still love mullvad
Mullvad disabled port forwarding. Bad for torrents. That was when everyone I know stopped using it.
Still a good VPN for other stuff
What VPN is left that I can use to host my website with open ports 80 and 443 ?
None I assume. No sane VPN provider will let their users do that.
edit: Maybe I should clarify? AirVPN supportswport forwarding but obviously not for 80/443. 99 out of 100 that shit is going to be hosting nono porn.
Jokes on you, I already pay for Mullvad. AD fucking failure
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.)
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