Post #115911
2026-01-06 21:59 UTC
Replies (40)
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@Solventbubbles@lemmy.world 2026-01-06 22:55
Vietnam is about to see a lot of people connecting to their servers through VPNs.
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@drmoose@lemmy.world 2026-01-07 06:36
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.
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@eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2026-01-06 22:01
based
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@kingofras@lemmy.world 2026-01-06 22:38
Let’s hope their head of state has kidnap protection.
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@thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-07 15:47
this is woke liberal communism, won't somebody think of the shareholders? (/j)
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@UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2026-01-07 00:28
Oh look, a government that seems to be at least a little interested in things that benefit their people.
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@CameronDev@programming.dev 2026-01-06 22:40
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.
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@Suavevillain@lemmy.world 2026-01-07 13:09
This is good and would be better than trying to fight adblockers all the time.
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@clot27@lemmy.zip 2026-01-07 17:36
Vietnam's 2nd win against US
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@ToclafaneTourist@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-07 10:55
Good job, a small step the right direction.
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@Suriel@lemmy.world 2026-01-06 22:04
I envy Vietnam
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@hddsx@lemmy.ca 2026-01-06 22:54
5 seconds is too long. The skip button should appear with any video ads.
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@mintiefresh@piefed.social 2026-01-06 23:54
Someone got tired of the damn ads interrupting their karoake sessions. W for Vietnam.
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@muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-08 02:22
YouTube: okay, after 5 seconds you can skip to the next ad.
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@Broadfern@lemmy.world 2026-01-06 22:33
Vietnam W
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@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2026-01-06 22:39
Literally communism.
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@lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2026-01-07 02:36
They should add another decree banning bot farms and scamlots and Elsagate content. I crush the fucking block button whenever I see those fake apology ads from that country telling me to buy a cheap fake Marshall Bluetooth speaker that doesn't exist thru a phishing site wanting credit card information.
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@SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2026-01-07 07:45
So you get 100 5s ads instead of 5 100s ads. What's the point? Just get ublock origin and stop using apps.
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@nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-08 00:17
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.
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@slothrop@lemmy.ca 2026-01-06 23:18
fuckin' commies, eh? /s
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@Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2026-01-07 21:14
We obviously didn't bomb them enough, they sure are uppity LAUNCH THE SEVENTH FLEET, GET THE COMMIES
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@DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-07 20:52
Good, a lot of people DOESN'T wanna sit through a long ad
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@seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-01-07 01:15
a rare W
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@guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-07 22:10
5 seconds? Just skip that as well.
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@CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 2026-01-06 23:51
5 second ad every 10 seconds
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@someguy3@lemmy.world 2026-01-07 01:08
Inaccurate title. Article title is Vienam.
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@notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 2026-01-07 17:12
And the population of Vietnam grew 3(0) sizes that day.
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@PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 2026-01-09 05:04
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.
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@termaxima@slrpnk.net 2026-01-09 10:50
Wish they had just banned ads !
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@Fokeu@lemmy.zip 2026-01-07 07:06
Based
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@popekingjoe@lemmy.world 2026-01-07 01:09
Based.
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@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-07 00:07
I'm glad that at least one government is stepping in to protect the helpless public from the menace of, uh, ads over five seconds long. Disaster averted.
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@Cricket@lemmy.zip 2026-01-07 03:48
Winetnam
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@NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2026-01-06 23:25
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.
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@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-06 23:25
It’s always funny when a service “bans” the use of a VPN but you can almost always find a server that works.
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@NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2026-01-06 23:31
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.
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@NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2026-01-06 23:37
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.
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@viking@infosec.pub 2026-01-07 06:11
The moment I see this I delete the game/app and leave a 1 star review. Reap what you sow.
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@noodlejetski@piefed.social 2026-01-07 10:42
https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls#mobile-os blocks all ads device-wide for free. the "base" profile should be good enough for most people. note: while this is provided by Mullvad, a trusted VPN company, the solution above is NOT a VPN.
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@StarFiend@lemmy.zip 2026-01-07 09:54
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.