Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?”

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• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am conflicted. A company has made me want to watch an ad and I enjoyed it.

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  • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    in NZ we used to have an awards show for the best tv ads 😅

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6PqLnqSbeA

    best one I remember:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUNJd06iyWU

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  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its weird. It wouldn’t be out of place as a pre-roll ad in a theater IMO. It gets the point across without narration in a horribly corporate voiceover OR obnoxious music.

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  • MrQuallzin@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At its core, I don’t mind if someone wants to let me know about their product. Unfortunately we’re in an age where it’s absolutely in our faces all the time and pushed with the most brain-rotting algorithms, and they’re absolutely horrendous. Every once in a while though I’ll still find ads that I enjoy, mainly YouTube creators who don’t just read scripts, but put in effort to make something worth watching.

    I’ll always point to ‘TomSka and Friends’ (TomSka being the creator of the ASDFmovie series) as being decent ads; each one is a full skit and I actually enjoy those ads because they put in the effort.

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    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      At one point in time advertisements were in dedicated sections of newspapers, magazines, posted in business windows and maaaaybe sent out in mailors. And that was about it. When TV broadcasts first started there was an dilemma over whether people would tolerate TV commercial breaks, and whether they were even ethical since you couldn’t just turn the page if you didn’t want to read the ad. We’re light-years beyond that shit now. Ads that try to appear to be anything but ads, individually targeted ads, unskippable ads on CPR instructional videos, ads in search results, ads on floating billboards among the beach, ads on your refrigerator, ads on your personal tablet or laptop, ads on the damn gas pump… it’s fucking dystopian.

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• andrewta@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  Here’s some irony

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    Yep. Should have just linked to this one, which works:

    …mullvad.net/…/Mullvad_AND_THEN_30s_US_ProRes422_…

    First mistake was using a Twitter (twimg) link.

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    • Beep@lemmus.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I intentionally use Twitter/X video link instead of Mullvad website video link because Mullvad website is blocked in a good number of countries.

      On the other hand, Twitter is one of the top 10 websites globally. Which means it’s guaranteed to work in most countries.

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• KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  On what grounds was it banned?

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The ASA publish the week’s decisions on Wednesday.

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• ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I never would have expected to see a Dude Where’s My Car reference in 2026.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I dunno, it tracks to me. Someone sees Dude Where’s My Car in theaters in 2000 at the age of 16. In 2026 they’re 42 and have been working at an ad company for 15 years.

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  • Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, that surprised me too.

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