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YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 1 week ago by ryujin470@fedia.io to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Vietnam is passing a new law, going into effect on February 15, that will ban unskippable ads as well as delays before closing banner ads.

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[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 5 points 1 week ago

uBlock Origin is a constant game of whack-a-mole

No it isn't. Once in a while it stops working for a few hours, but I can't remember the last time that happened.

They started embedding the ad directly into the same video stream

That's false. Twitch does it, YouTube doesn't. You can use any alternative frontend like Invidious or Grayjay and verify this quite easily.