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[–] Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world 110 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Intrusive and sneaky ads like the ones on YouTube should be heavily regulated if not illegal.

Edit: especially ads louder than the average content volume, repetitive jingles designed to get stuck in your head, billboards, and ads thrown in the middle of the video you’re watching

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"Loud" is unfortunately hard to quantify. There's a lot of psychoacoustics that mean that the number of decidels really doesn't tell you what's loud and what's not.

This is a great demo of how sounds can appear extremely loud without actually being physically very loud: https://youtu.be/tONF9OSUOSw?t=7m16s

Anyway the point is that it's hard to make rules about this kind of thing, because sound is subjective and there are ways to circumvent any restrictions you make.

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[–] yesterdayshero@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sounds like you haven't watched a lot of free to air tv haha

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can honestly say, apart from seeing it on on the background when visiting parents or similar, that I haven't watched free to air TV in maybe 15 years. Been streaming or downloading all that time.

[–] yesterdayshero@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hardly watch it either. Just found it funny all the complaints above could be applied to what free to air tv has been doing for decades.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Agree with you completely.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There have been rules in place for over a decade for OTA broadcasting.

https://www.fcc.gov/media/policy/loud-commercials

[–] yesterdayshero@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yet they still get around it through sound mixing. Any regulations against using jingles or having ads interrupt what you're watching?

[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ads in those are also regulated in civilised countries.

[–] RelentlessArts@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Luckily all that is prosecutable by Ofcom here so it very rarely happens.