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

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.

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.

This is good and would be better than trying to fight adblockers all the time.

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.

Let’s hope their head of state has kidnap protection.

Good job, a small step the right direction.

Vietnam's 2nd win against US

based

Oh look, a government that seems to be at least a little interested in things that benefit their people.

this is woke liberal communism, won't somebody think of the shareholders?

(/j)

Someone got tired of the damn ads interrupting their karoake sessions.

W for Vietnam.

YouTube: okay, after 5 seconds you can skip to the next ad.

Literally communism.

Vietnam W

5 seconds is too long. The skip button should appear with any video ads.

I envy Vietnam

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.

If possible in Vietnam, then we can all have this wherever we are in the world. Europe set out USB-C compliance and everyone is compliant.

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.

a rare W

fuckin' commies, eh?

/s

5 seconds? Just skip that as well.

We obviously didn't bomb them enough, they sure are uppity

LAUNCH THE SEVENTH FLEET, GET THE COMMIES

Good, a lot of people DOESN'T wanna sit through a long ad

And the population of Vietnam grew 3(0) sizes that day.

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.

5 second ad every 10 seconds