Post B21cMFTyLIIsPvChNo by aligorith@mastodon.nz
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 (DIR) Post #B21cMFTyLIIsPvChNo by aligorith@mastodon.nz
       2026-01-07T00:36:49Z
       
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       Way to go Vietnam!  Now if only our politicians were not as spineless and beholden to Big Tech lobbying + bullying 🙄Summary:Vietnam to ban unskippable ads with hard cap of 5 secs max before skipping allowing, requirement for obvious close buttons, immediate close option on static ads, and additional controls on ads for harmful products and services. 👍https://saigoneer.com/vietnam-news/28652-vienam-bans-unskippable-ads,-requires-skip-button-to-appear-after-5-seconds
       
 (DIR) Post #B21cMGFpTMaIoLauye by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2026-01-07T00:41:40Z
       
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       @aligorith It occurs to me that a new revenue model for countries struggling with regulating bigtech would be to make sensible demands regarding privacy and eliminating dark patterns (among other things) and then fine them heavily for every day they don't comply if they want to trade in that country.
       
 (DIR) Post #B29SdQdwegKHg56LEe by futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2026-01-10T19:30:20Z
       
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       We have such a dependency on certain vendors that they could retaliate.If we turned off access to Bing the vendor could then turn off entire government departments access to emails or documents. Kind of a big bargaining chip.All the more reason to fight for tech independence. @lightweight @aligorith
       
 (DIR) Post #B29StSmqSA3wxWuU6q by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2026-01-10T19:33:19Z
       
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       @futuresprog @aligorith Yup, that's quite true (as I've described in https://davelane.nz/mshostage), however, *the public realising this* might result in our gov't no longer being able to cavalierly constantly ratchet up our dependence on these horrible vendors.