Good, a lot of people DOESN'T wanna sit through a long ad
this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2026
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Especially when the ad is longer than the video you are trying to watch.
Or you watch the entire video than accidentally swipe the edge of your phone and you are sent back, then have to watch it again to view the video once you click it again.
Very glad Vietnam banned unskippable ads - for an already-existing-socialist country that supports a philosophy that encourages common ownership of the means of production (and wouldn't allow advertising), but allows advertising, this is a pretty good decision.
Also, how is Vietnam allows ads if they're a Marxist-Leninist country?
I guess the alternative is locking their people out of Youtube by effectively banning it. Even this is a gutsy move TBH.
It's the same deal when "how is it that you're paying taxes if you're a libertarian"?
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5 seconds? Just skip that as well.
Inaccurate title. Article title is Vienam.
Still nam.
5 second ad every 10 seconds
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.