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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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[–] 228 points 9 months ago (22 children)

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

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  • [–] 90 points 9 months ago (17 children)

    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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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago* (8 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    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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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    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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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    They can't ban all VPN IPs though

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    It happens if there's a lot of traffic from the same IP, happened to me when I first imported my subscriptions into smart tube on my tv after I cancelled YouTube premium when they jacked up the price. Was just a temporary ban though.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Uhhh we have ads...

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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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