I just saw a #Mulvad VPN advertisement on #YouTube that gave me the impression that London, and the U.K. government, were censoring its advertisements.

I did some digging, and this is misinformation. No regulator censored anything. Not the government, nor #Ofcom, nor the #AdvertisingStandardsAuthority, were involved at all.

#Clearcast, a private organization owned by some of the telly channel companies, which works with advertisers pre-broadcast, had some questions and rejected the initial advert copy that was sent over. And the tale as told even by Mulvad itself doesn't have Mulvad even answering them before it went off in a sulk to YouTube crying 'government censorship'.

One of Clearcast's questions, I read, was what rape, murder, and paedophilia had to do with #VPNs such that they ought to be in a telly advertisement. Given #TomScott's long battle with misleading VPN advertising, that seems like a fair question to be asking.

https://clearcast.co.uk/what-we-do/

#AdvertisingStandards

My main Linux laptop decided to fall in a huge heap this morning and I had to do a complete reinstall onto a new machine - might as well treat myself. Not being able to use networking, keyboard or mouse was pretty limiting! Was a good chance to cleanup.

The great firewall of Oman was a bit limiting - couldn't get Mullvad, Signal etc without getting downloads via another remote system.

Now I'm back up and running faster than ever!

#firewall #linux #signal #mulvad

Guten Morgen, gibt es Erfahrungen mit dem Brave VPN ? Kann man dem Dienst vertrauen, oder sollte man doch lieber in Richtung #mulvad blicken?

#bravevpn #brave #vpn

Giving the #Mulvad/#Tor VPN browser a spin.

Basically a privacy browser made for browsing the web with a trusted VPN

https://mullvad.net/en/download/browser

I'm using it with @riseup VPN

https://riseup.net/en/vpn/