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This Country Gave YouTube The Smack Down - WAN Show January 9, 2026

1/10/20263 hr 42 min

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Clips

Disney’s AI Creature Cringe
Regulating YouTube Ads
Sponsor Name Brain-Fart

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First 90 seconds

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  2. Linus Sebastian· Host0:27

    [upbeat music] Happy Friday, everyone, and welcome to the WAN Show! We've got a great show lined up for you guys this week. Samsung is under fire for watching what you're watching roughly twice every second, and sharing that information with their partners. Yeah, yeah, not great.

  3. Luke Lafreniere· Host0:54

    Hmm.

  4. Linus Sebastian· Host0:54

    Um, our headline topic is, of course, though, that YouTube has met its match: government regulation. That's right, Vietnam has laid the smackdown on YouTube, banning unskippable ads, or at least limiting how long unskippable ads can run on platforms like YouTube. I'm sure that is welcome news to the people in Vietnam. What else we got this week?

  5. Luke Lafreniere· Host1:20

    [chuckles] The fastest version of Windows is probably not what you'd expect. And also, Disney undercuts decades of incredible filmmaking technology- [gasps] ... with

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