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    6 months ago

    Tom Scott released a video on the topic a few years ago to explain why he never took a VPN sponsorship

    The opening scene of that video is from a VPN sponsorship he did.

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      6 months ago

      This is inaccurate, read the pinned comment on the video where he points out that the opening scene is entirely made up and isn’t about a real person.

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          6 months ago

          The opening scene is a parody of his typical videos (which are typically about places/people) transitioning into a VPN ad segment. The fact that it isn’t about a real person means that it is not in fact from one of his real videos. If you watch the opening scene and read the pinned comment on the video my reply might make more sense.

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            6 months ago

            The opening scene is a parody of his typical videos

            So he typically advertises for VPNs? I don’t understand.

            If you watch the opening scene and read the pinned comment on the video my reply might make more sense.

            I did both of those things. Neither his comment or yours make sense because the opening scene is obviously not about any person, it’s about a VPN.

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              So he typically advertises for VPNs? I don’t understand.

              He “typically” discusses interesting places/people. In the first 5 or so seconds of the video he discusses a fictitious person and how they “weren’t protected from viruses, but you could be with a VPN”. So he transitions from his typical video style to a VPN ad to then highlight all of the things wrong with VPN ads.