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Mulvad ad spotted in London tube (lemmy.world)

submitted 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) by Armand1@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The ad. See below for transcription

Transcription:

COUNTRIES THAT BAN OR RESTRICT VPN SERVICES: Iran, Belarus, Iraq, North Korea, Turkmenistan, China, Russia, Egypt, India, Myanmar, Oman... United Kingdom?

This is probably referring to this: https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/gadgets-tech/vpn-ban-uk-b2939311.html

An older post from Mulvad about their issues advertising in the UK: https://mullvad.net/en/and-then/uk

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[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 minutes ago

Yikes what's with the ?

Are they implying the UK genocide regime is better than the other countries?

[-] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago

Iran, Belarus, Iraq, North Korea, Turkmenistan, China, Russia, Egypt, India, Myanmar, Oman… United Kingdom?

Hey! Don't forget Utah! First state in the US pass a VPN ban. Wisconsin came close, but sanity prevailed there. Utah's bill also appears to directly violate the first amendment to the US constitution. It criminalizes certain speech by sites related to giving VPN instructions.

[-] vapor_body@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

Their server list always made this statement implicitly. I'm glad they're getting more into the blatant fed marketing since people will be able to see it.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

their brutal dictatorships versus... our shining democracy?

are the mullvad people aware the UK is a monarchy?

[-] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 hours ago

An ad criticizing the UK posted on the metro so it has government approval from the same government I suppose? It gives me bad vibes that it's now gotten so big to have metro ads, I trusted it more when it was a lesser known VPN that no one was pushing on you

[-] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 hours ago

I also liked them more when they weren’t popular. Second album is better, move towards keyboards was a mistake, bring back original bassist, went to hell when the drummer died, etc.

[-] CountVlad47@feddit.org 5 points 8 hours ago

I understand what you're saying, but as long as they keep operating in the same way while gaining users it's better for everyone. More users means more privacy because it gets harder to tell traffic from different users apart.

[-] Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works 32 points 13 hours ago

Love Mullvad

[-] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago

Yeah right now mulvad is the goat for VPNs.

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

That's a low bar considering they don't list the ping time for each server and are banned by most websites that screen for VPN's. Nor do they allow port-forwarding. -I say all this while still connected to Mullvad.

[-] vapor_body@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah it's just easy to use and cheap. I know it's CIA. So is my ISP. Neither are seriously bound by legality.

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