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.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    2·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • Decoy321@lemmy.worldM
    2·
    2 months ago

    Mod here . I found this amusing, and op is good sport, so fuck y’all I’m leaving it up. 😁

    • ByteOnBikes@discuss.online
      2·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • lobut@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • rozodru@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • ByteOnBikes@discuss.online
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      2 months ago

      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.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    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

    • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I was surprised to see Mullvad ads on the Link. Pleasantly surprised, at that!

  • N3rd@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    i knew mullvad was an absolute banger when i made an account. biggest green flag ever, radioactive green.

  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
      1·
      2 months ago

      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.)

    • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Here’s the thing. The reason ads are bad is because almost every single one is for a product that will exploit the user. Mullvad is a product that does the opposite. They ask for money, but don’t force it. They intend to give power of the user’s life back to the user. Thus, some ads are actually okay. Ads about VPNs, self hosted systems, anti-corporate anticapitalist services, software that is for you to use and only ever takes telemetry for software improvement, and then only if you consent first.

      Hell, before this garbage, on TV the only ads were products and charities, and everybody grew really sick of the African child ads because its sole purpose was to exploit the viewer’s empathy and get their money. Same with now, except if it’s not money they want it’s data, and data is money to them.

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Related note

        I’m a Ublock Origin kinda guy, but not a SponsorBlock one

        Because gestures at capitalism is the thing for now:

        Sponsorships, when transparent and well-chosen and clearly labeled and clever, are less grating and don’t use anti-privacy targeting methods. That’s a path forward I’m pretty much OK with (remember capitalism is the thing, you & I have to eat like the YouTubers?).

        My expectation is not “everyone should do everything for free” or “you’re only allowed to sell merch, without ever mentioning it” or “uploaders must have live shows and sell tickets if they ever want a dollar”. It’s “ewww, ads” and the malware that we’re exposed to alongside them.

        Meant to make a post about this but your comment triggered it early :)

      • Klear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Nah, the reason ads are bad is because they poison your mind down to the unconscious parts. It doesn’t matter if the company behind it is moral or not, it’s still memetic pollution.

        Edit: For the record I don’t have a huge issue with this post being here, but I wanted to chip in with my opinion that ads are bad even if you separate them from the product they’re advertising.