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.
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.
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.
At least 10% of their entire ad revenue comes from ads related to Scams or illegal things.
Please stop using those Meta platforms and stick sites like Bluesky or Lemmy.
100% and I’m an early adopter of all decentralized platforms but I still run IT of my all extended family and have a few connections through these platforms so even with my limited use I’m still exposed to so many scams. I can’t imagine what a daily normal user sees, it must be just scam after scam.
I’d love that, but I need Whatsapp to participate in society. Several companies, mostly SMEs in fact but also big ones won’t talk to me if not through Whatsapp.
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.
Let’s hope their head of state has kidnap protection.
The US invade Vietnam? Like that would ever happen!
It’s cool, we can pull out of/ lose to “communism” again.
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…
Does Vietnam have oil reserves they can
stealfree?
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.
VPN 🤔
We obviously didn’t bomb them enough, they sure are uppity
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Wish they had just banned ads !
Someone got tired of the damn ads interrupting their karoake sessions.
W for Vietnam.
Good, a lot of people DOESN’T wanna sit through a long ad
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 allowing 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”?
That’s not what I mean - A lot of libertarians support the notion that taxation is theft, but they DOESN’T make them tax evaders. Every year on April 15th they had to file their taxes to the IRS (because obviously it’s better than NOT filing them).
What I was trying to ask is if Vietnam supports communism (which calls for the abolition of money, among other things), how do they allow advertising? China did the same thing.
Yeah, you’re right, I looked it up.
Apparently that’s the “Chinese characteristics” in “socialism with Chinese characteristics”.
“Socialism with Chinese characteristics” is more like Market Marxism
They DON’T
Unless you are doing that on purpose, then well played lol
it’s like eye bleach when reading
Literally communism.
This is good and would be better than trying to fight adblockers all the time.
I envy Vietnam
It has good and bad things
It’s got socialism, so … pretty good?
Nah it’s just corrupt as shit
Unlike USA? Honestly at this point it’s all about healthcare for me. Socialized medicine or gtfo
