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.
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.
https://asrank.caida.org/orgs/949de93ab6