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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
They can’t ban all VPN IPs though
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 ._.
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Let’s hope their head of state has kidnap protection.
The US invade Vietnam? Like that would ever happen!
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.
plays fortune son it ain’t me…
It’s cool, we can pull out of/ lose to “communism” again.
Does Vietnam have oil reserves they can
stealfree?
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.
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
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.
The moment I see this I delete the game/app and leave a 1 star review. Reap what you sow.
I envy Vietnam
It has good and bad things
It’s got socialism, so … pretty good?
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.
I mean you seem to keep using those meta platforms. Sounds like you are okay with the scam ads then.
5 seconds is too long. The skip button should appear with any video ads.
better than nothing. its a first step.
Someone got tired of the damn ads interrupting their karoake sessions.
W for Vietnam.
Vietnam W
Wietnam
Winetnam
Literally communism.
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.
fuckin’ commies, eh?
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a rare W
