As Phụ Nữ reports, Vietnam recently announced Decree No. 342, which details a number of provisions to the national Advertising Law, due to take effect from February 15, 2026. The adjustments are expected to place stricter control on Vietnam’s online advertising activities to protect consumers and curb illegal ads.
Amongst the decree articles, some standout stipulations include a hard cap on the waiting time before viewers can skip video and animated ads to no more than 5 seconds. Static ads must be immediately cancellable.
Wish they had just banned ads !
YouTube: okay, after 5 seconds you can skip to the next ad.
Vietnam is about to see a lot of people connecting to their servers through VPNs.
I wouldn’t be surprised if google/YouTube just bans all VPN IPs. They already make you sign in lately if your IP range has been “shadow banned.”
They can’t ban all VPN IPs though
Me: imdb movie name… thinking it will save me a second.
“Click the stop signs”
Me: fuck it, I really didn’t need to know if that actor was also the one who played in other movie.
We were trained into saving time with search engines, now I have to remember to not use them and just type in imdb.com and then use their search function
There are several domains specific search features like duckduckgo bangs that allow you to directly search popular websites with text like
interstellar !imdb- it’s super useful! I think firefox has something like this built in too.
Imgur bans my IP from a Digital Ocean droplet of my own build. Just sayin’, they’re not only operating from known IP ranges.
A digital ocean IP is going to be under a specific ASN with information on multiple ip ranges. These ASN under a corporation are public and easy to block.
you’d be better off connecting to the netherlands or some other country that straight up don’t get ads though
Uhhh we have ads…
i think i confused it with twitch from a couple of years ago, quick google search says people are using albanian VPNs to avoid ads on youtube
not that it matters much since using ublock is easier anywaysorry for spreading misinformation on the internet, i take my L+bozo card ._.
Vietnam’s 2nd win against US
Nice but all I want is actually liability. Meta should be hold liable for each and every single scam ad and here in south-east asia it’s just rampant.
I see nothing but blatant scams, especially on Meta platforms. I don’t mean simple e-commerce scams either where you buy some trash and it never gets sent to you - it’s full on phishing and finance scams.
I just dont understand how are we collectively ok with this - every platform should have the burden of full liability, period. If someone gets their money taken through scam ad not only Meta should pay them back but suffer a 100x fine as well. The unskippable ad is nothing compared to this.
Same with google in East Europe. Constantly seeing AI generated politicians pushing for scams. Several times I’ve reported the more obvious scams with proof. Google has always responded to me that it does not break their terms of service. So if you want to advertise scams - know that google allows it.
Please stop using those Meta platforms and stick sites like Bluesky or Lemmy.
100% and I’m an early adopter of all decentralized platforms but I still run IT of my all extended family and have a few connections through these platforms so even with my limited use I’m still exposed to so many scams. I can’t imagine what a daily normal user sees, it must be just scam after scam.
I mean you seem to keep using those meta platforms. Sounds like you are okay with the scam ads then.
They didn’t say stop participating in society they said stop using Metas plaforms which is actually a really easy thing to do.
Unless you think Facebook/IG are society.
No, but some public transit services, random service providers, random SMEs whose services I use communicate solely through Whatsapp.
they will simply use this as justification to block YouTube from the country.
it’s an extremely popular site in Vietnam, but they’ve been trying to block it as well as Facebook for years. they’ve also blocked steam, the BBC, paste bin, medium… The Vietnamese government does not care about Internet technology I promise.
Social media is supposedly a threat to that government, but at the same time, however, they allow some fly-by-night outfits to run fake CSR operations covering up spam jobs and scams on social media.
The anti-government sentiment is very strong in the country right now in the speech is happening largely on YouTube
this is woke liberal communism, won’t somebody think of the shareholders?
(/j)
This is good and would be better than trying to fight adblockers all the time.
Mobile game ads that make you close it three times before they let you continue playing can fuck off as well. Trying to trick me into clicking on your ad only makes me hate your product more, idiots.
I encountered a crazier one recently: the app will just refuse to start if you block the ad servers they’re using, showing “connection unstable”.
Went to connection history and saw lots of requests to ad servers, unblocked them and I finally started the app without error, but yeah I did see ads too.
I deleted the app afterwards.
These ‘games’ realty are just a vehicle for delivering ads, aren’t they, but I guess that’s been true of all sorts of things for decades.
The moment I see this I delete the game/app and leave a 1 star review. Reap what you sow.
They just keep getting worse. Many of them now take you to the app store instead of closing the ad. Once you’ve gone to the app store and then back to the game, it’ll show the button to close it.
I’ve been noticing that as well. Fucking bullshit. I just want to play a nice serene game of Mahjong or Freecell. Fuck off, Temu. I don’t want to ‘shop like a billionaire’. I don’t want to shop at all while I’m shitting.
Anyone know of a version of either that’s ad free for Android?
I actually paid the 6 bucks or so for the paid version of Chuzzle 2 to get rid of the ads, and they’ve never asked me for another cent in the several years since. Totally worth it.
Here’s a great free cell solitare app, called pysolfc
Mahjong Soul is free and has no ads
I had a look and yeah, I can do without the anime bullshit. I just want a simple mahjong solitaire. The Mobilityware one I’ve been playing is nice, but the ads have gotten to me, and when I looked to remove them it was a monthly subscription, and fuck that.
There is Tenhou, which is more basic, but it feels too serious, and I think it’s only in japanese.
Kemono Mahjong has less anime, and a really good UI for phones and only costs 5USD 1 time, but you can only play against computers or friends, no random match making.
We obviously didn’t bomb them enough, they sure are uppity
LAUNCH THE SEVENTH FLEET, GET THE COMMIES
5 second ad every 10 seconds
Curious how big-tech platforms, actively moderating every user action on their platform (for advertiser-friendliness), while often involved with codeveloping the world’s leading AI models, are somehow unable to moderate advertisement content. Certainly no conflict of interest there…
I do wonder what downstream consequences this might entail: if YouTube starts baking advertisements right into videos, would they still classify as advertisements? And what would this in turn mean for content-creators’ sponsored content (often constituting a significant portion of their income)?
As much as I passionately hate advertisements (leading me to mercilessly block every single one of them), I rather have platforms using advertisements for monetization, than doubling down on selling user-data.
a rare W
Oh look, a government that seems to be at least a little interested in things that benefit their people.
My fellow americans and I look at this concept and tilt our heads to the side like confused puppies.
5 seconds? Just skip that as well.
