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.
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.
YouTube: okay, after 5 seconds you can skip to the next ad.
Vietnam’s 2nd win against US
this is woke liberal communism, won’t somebody think of the shareholders?
(/j)
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.
At least 10% of their entire ad revenue comes from ads related to Scams or illegal things.
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’d love that, but I need Whatsapp to participate in society. Several companies, mostly SMEs in fact but also big ones won’t talk to me if not through Whatsapp.
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.
This is good and would be better than trying to fight adblockers all the time.
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.”
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It very much is possible to ban “all” public and even commercial VPNs. VPN traffic tends to have very distinct characteristics in logs and it is not overly difficult for orgs to get the IP ranges allocated to each company.
What is not possible is banning all vpn traffic in the sense that a friend or family member sets up wireguard for you. But that is a drop in the bucket to the point of being functionally nonexistent.
The middle ground, of course, are pseudo-botnets of compromised computers. But those also tend to be a fairly small percentage (outside of DDOSing) and are likely getting blocked for other reasons.
There are even companies selling lists of IPs for all sort of behaviour and characteristics. Just adding one of those is trivial.
Though google has a lot more data and engineers so they could just create a better one themselves.
It is a constant cat and mouse game between VPN providers and other actors. A few IPs get on a list, they try to find others, repeat
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If your corporate VPN is routing ALL traffic then your IT department are idiots. And I am pretty sure said company would thank google for blocking youtube from their employees.
Depends.
I am in uni, so a bit different, but there’s many sites that allow access to articles, studies, books, etc. to us based on source IP. And I guess it could be hard to route only those, especially if some of them decide to use Cloudflare or similar.Another option is doing so for easier monitoring of work devices that people will always try to use for things they’re not supposed to.
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And, when discussing stuff like this, it is important to understand that “all VPNs” actually means corporate and public VPNs.
If you want to have an actual conversation then context matters. Rather than just fixating on nonsensical overly literal interpretations because you only want to be “technically correct” by attacking a strawman.
It’s always funny when a service “bans” the use of a VPN but you can almost always find a server that works.
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.
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.
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 ._.
Fair enough! You have my respect
Good job, a small step the right direction.
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 because of all these new decrees that they’re making, some of which are batshit crazy, and the speech is happening largely on YouTube
Let’s hope their head of state has kidnap protection.
The US invade Vietnam? Like that would ever happen!
plays fortune son it ain’t me…
I also did a lot of drugs in history class but now that I’m clean, I feel like it was the wrong time.
You can always re-start.
It’s cool, we can pull out of/ lose to “communism” again.
Does Vietnam have oil reserves they can
stealfree?
based
We obviously didn’t bomb them enough, they sure are uppity
LAUNCH THE SEVENTH FLEET, GET THE COMMIES
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.
but atleast you have 2 parties to choose from? why does it matter that fundamentally nothing will change tho? enjoy freedom!!
5 seconds? Just skip that as well.
Honestly, this might be good for the ad industry. Force them to get to the point quicker. Alternatively, we could see a return of epilepsy inducing flashing ads…
I like the idea of IRL billboard ads being “dismissable”. If the ad is too obnoxious, someone gets to press a button and wipe the billboard.
I would press the button on every billboard
I want this in my town, my employer basically owns all of them
Time to meet your local graffiti writers
Make it legal to vandalize ads
☝🤓 Erm akchually it’s not “AD”, but “ad”.
It’s a normal word, not an acronym. It’s a shortening of “advertisement”, or a further shortening of “advert” which is a shortening of “advertisement”. It surprises me that people do not realize this; it seems obvious.
Thank you [Honorary] Pedantry :D. “ad” just felt wrong somehow, but you are correct. I have fixed it, sorry for the pain and suffering I caused you :D
