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.
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
Vietnam is about to see a lot of people connecting to their servers through VPNs.
you’d be better off connecting to the netherlands or some other country that straight up don’t get ads though
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’ really are just a vehicle for delivering ads, aren’t they, but I guess that’s been true of all sorts of things for decades.
