Wish they had just banned ads !
this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2026
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YouTube: okay, after 5 seconds you can skip to the next ad.
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.
Same with google in East Europe. Constantly seeing AI generated politicians pushing for scams. Several times I've reported the more obvious scams with proof. Google has always responded to me that it does not break their terms of service. So if you want to advertise scams - know that google allows it.
Please stop using those Meta platforms and stick sites like Bluesky or Lemmy.
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At least 10% of their entire ad revenue comes from ads related to Scams or illegal things.
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this is woke liberal communism, won't somebody think of the shareholders?
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Vietnam's 2nd win against US
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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This is good and would be better than trying to fight adblockers all the time.
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.
I encountered a crazier one recently: the app will just refuse to start if you block the ad servers they're using, showing "connection unstable".
Went to connection history and saw lots of requests to ad servers, unblocked them and I finally started the app without error, but yeah I did see ads too.
I deleted the app afterwards.
These 'games' realty are just a vehicle for delivering ads, aren't they, but I guess that's been true of all sorts of things for decades.
The moment I see this I delete the game/app and leave a 1 star review. Reap what you sow.
https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls#mobile-os
blocks all ads device-wide for free. the "base" profile should be good enough for most people. note: while this is provided by Mullvad, a trusted VPN company, the solution above is NOT a VPN.
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They just keep getting worse. Many of them now take you to the app store instead of closing the ad. Once you've gone to the app store and then back to the game, it'll show the button to close it.
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Good job, a small step the right direction.
Let’s hope their head of state has kidnap protection.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Theres a major difference though. It is much more costly and complicated to manufacture different hardware for different countries (especially with the eco system of peripherals behind it) than it is to change software for different countries.
Its easy for YouTube or Facebook to set all ads for Vietnam to skippable while maintaining unskippable ads for other countries to maximize profits.
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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
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We obviously didn't bomb them enough, they sure are uppity
LAUNCH THE SEVENTH FLEET, GET THE COMMIES
5 seconds is too long. The skip button should appear with any video ads.
better than nothing. its a first step.
5 seconds? Just skip that as well.
So you get 100 5s ads instead of 5 100s ads. What's the point? Just get ublock origin and stop using apps.
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Someone got tired of the damn ads interrupting their karoake sessions.
W for 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.
Literally communism.
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