Hacker News with Generative AI: Moldova

YouTube Forces Ads in Moldova Without Offering Premium as an Option (ycombinator.com)
Until March 2024, users in Moldova enjoyed an ad-free experience on YouTube. However, in March 2024, YouTube began showing intrusive ads in the region. Despite this change, YouTube Premium — the service that allows users to remove ads — remains completely unavailable in Moldova. (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365)
Russia paying people to vote against joining EU, Moldova warns (politico.eu)
Moscow has built a “mafia-style” network to distribute cash ahead of a critical referendum on the country’s future, top Moldovan officials told POLITICO.
Moldova votes yes to EU membership as president Sandu claims Moscow meddled (euronews.com)
A referendum on Moldova's EU membership bid passed by an extremely slim margin, with the difference between "yes" and "no" votes counted in hundreds.
The only tourist in Moldova (telegraph.co.uk)
Moldova has the biggest number of vineyards per capita in the world (twitter.com)