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[โ€“] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I think the US passed some sort of standard, under Obama, to normalize the volume for commercials on broadcast TV.

That worked for a while, but now that everything is streaming, they're fucking doing it again. Because of course they are.

[โ€“] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And now they wonder why people use adblockers whenever they can

[โ€“] Smoogs@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

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[โ€“] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Tbf before that standard it was ROUGH. You'd have advertisers that would absolutely CRANK the volume on their sound, even distorting it, just to make it the loudest thing on earth. You could literally be somewhere in the house and just hear "mnmmmmnmnmnm....BIG BOBS CARPET EMPORIUM TWO DAYS ONLY" like it was some kind of stadium speaker system, like the neighbors hearing it was gonna help the ad reach more people.

[โ€“] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

It's like that again on streamers like Prime