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

The WAN Show

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🗓️ 10 January 2026

⏱️ 221 minutes

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0:00.0	Happy Friday everyone and oh welcome to the WAN show.
0:08.0	We've got a great show lined up for you guys this week.
0:11.1	Samsung is under fire for watching what you're watching roughly twice every second and sharing that information with their partners.
0:23.7	Yeah, yeah, not great.
0:26.2	Our headline topic is, of course, though, that YouTube has met its match.
0:32.3	Government regulation, that's right.
0:34.8	Vietnam has laid the smackdown on YouTube banning unskippable ads or at least
0:41.6	limiting how long unskippable ads can run on platforms like youtube i'm sure that is welcome news to
0:49.5	the people in vietnam what else we got this week the fastest version of Windows is probably not what you'd expect.
0:56.7	And also, Disney undercuts decades of incredible filmmaking technology with one of the
1:01.9	weirdest, worst videos I've maybe ever seen.
1:05.3	Why did you pick that?
1:06.3	That actually caused me a certain amount of existential dread, because the person presenting for some reason seemed to think that it was cool which hurt my soul
1:17.3	Oh The show was brought to you by
1:38.0	Blank
1:40.8	Delta Hub
1:43.2	Delta Hub Along Delta Hub.
1:45.2	Alongside, of course, our rap partner D-brand,
1:48.8	our laptop partner, Razor,
1:50.9	and our chair partner, who is also Razor.
1:55.1	I remember now.
1:56.5	I made it white for the reboot last week.
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