Vietnam bans unskippable ads

It's nice to read a case of government intervention making things better for the public rather than just more surveillance and control. And from Vietnam of all places.

I live an ad-free lifestyle and it is very serene.

This "Vienam" sounds like a nice place!

How does television work in Vietnam? Is it all adfree?

Where is Vienam? Probably next to Camboia?

VPN use via Vietnam is about to go global.

Socialists countries, always in the forefront of basic human rights.

And then I thought the poster skipped a t

Vietnam, not "Vienam"

So I have only one subscription: Youtube because of family/kids and bonus YT music.

For the rest: adguard phone/pihole home, frosty instead of twitch, newpipe instead of youtube(I hate the interface), infinity instead of reddit and a lot more alternatives for social media. Also using xmanager for some apps ;). I have zero ads on my phone or my pc. I disabled the ads once for my wife, she instantly yelled at me to enable it again :).

We need this too in the EU.

Actually, there should not be ads to begin with. They always waste my time. Thankfully there is ublock origin - which Google killed while lying about why they did so. Everyone knows why Google killed ublock origin (it still works on Firefox, but how many people still use Firefox?).

Unfathomably based

I saw one where it was 20 seconds before the skip/x appeared, then when you hit X it pushes you to the app store, then when you hit back the x button moves to a new location, then when you hit it, it puts you into a 5 second "hey we're not done yet" ad cta... combine that with the fact the ad is showing soap opera gameplay that doesn't exist in the game - how is this even allowed?

Refreshing to see. Makes you wonder what we could achieve if we all just started to say no to enshitification of the world.

It's Vietnam.

I wish the US led with stuff like this. More and more I feel like our politicians just care about enriching themselves without trying to improve our quality of life.

I <3 Vienam

Finally. I've seen the ad. I never want the product or service or (most often) shitty misrepresented mobile game.

Advertising standards agencies in most Western countries are scum.

*Vietnam mandates 5 second ads

Running ads unskippably: unspeakably sad.

2 words. adblock

US companies respond with 100 skippable ads per minute

Vie(t)nam

I not too long ago received an ad on YouTube that was an entire episode of the UK reality TV program 'Made In Chelsea'. I think it was skippable but I couldn't believe that a) someone set up an ad campaign to do this, and b) YouTube didn't detect it.

That’s not bad but better would be to require a default of chronological order for showing content with an option for “discover” other content but only on demand.

Another step towards Blipverts from Max Headroom.

So I really hate ads and either block them or avoid the product altogether. My tolerance is very close to zero.

But is it the government's job to regulate good user experience? Are unskippable ads a social problem that must be regulated away? I am the polar opposite of a libertarian, but to me ads are the alternative to other means of monetisation. They support things that are free to use but not free to operate. The transaction is consensual and not unavoidable.

'Vienam'? 'this like "Quality Learing Center"?

vie*t*nam?

Title should be "Vietnam", not "Vienam". I would downvote the submitter just for the reason that he posted this without correting it first.

I know this is a deeply unpopular opinion, but I don't get humans sometimes. Why does this need regulating? Am I the only person who just doesn't use services which do this?

This is so obviously a free-market problem. The reason these ads exist is because there's a significant percentage of people who are happy to put up with them and those people mean that products can be better funded without requiring subscriptions.

If people want to use products with unskippable ads, then who cares? This "I want X without Y" regulation is so stupid. You can't have X without Y. Just go buy Z product and stop asking regulators to find ways to keep you coming back to products of consumer-hostile corporations.

And just like that, millions of disillusioned youth embraced communism ...

I always wondered about traditional television. People like my dad still have it. It still has a shitload of ads. They're unskippable. People don't really seam to care about those for some reason though.

Original title was

> Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds

If we need to edit titles, could we at least take the opportunity to correct obvious typos? (Missing the t in Vietnam)

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- Google just needs to tell DJT

- Vietnam get 50 % tariffs

- Change the ban

- Easy peasy for Tech bros.

fuck yes, fuck APPLOVIN

If you were giving out free cookies at the front of your store intended to thank shoppers for coming in, and someone reaches in and grabs one while running past, that's an ad-blocker. Not the most ethically justifiable[1], but legal. This law though is saying that if you have a person at the door who makes sure you are at least browsing the store before giving you a free cookie, that practice is now illegal. This is utterly nonsense to me. Does the Vietnam constitution contain a right to free VOD? How do TV broadcasters get away with it, given they're riddled with "non-skippable ads" -- about 17 minutes per hour of them!

[1] if you want to dispute this, is it just because you're thinking the store is run by a big company you don't like and that you feel rips people off? Does it change though if your mom baked those cookies to give out to try to get people to shop in her little boutique that barely makes enough money to cover rent? The point is just that it's not universally justifiable. I don't care if you block ads (I block them too) or take free samples from stores.

I'm just wondering why governments think it's a good idea to regulate ads. IMO that is something the market (e.g. the users) should take care of.