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[–] 118 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 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

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (5 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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  • [+] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 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.

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