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Vietnam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer (saigoneer.com)
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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.

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[-] Solventbubbles@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

Vietnam is about to see a lot of people connecting to their servers through VPNs.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

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."

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Imgur bans my IP from a Digital Ocean droplet of my own build. Just sayin', they're not only operating from known IP ranges.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

They can't ban all VPN IPs though

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

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

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] lostme@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

you'd be better off connecting to the netherlands or some other country that straight up don't get ads though

[-] FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Uhhh we have ads...

[-] lostme@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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 anyway

sorry for spreading misinformation on the internet, i take my L+bozo card ._.

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