• Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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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      8 months ago

      “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.

      • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        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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        8 months ago

        Free to air is heavily regulated in my country if it had a fraction of the fraudulent grifter ads Google would be shut down

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      8 months ago

      Googles ad platform is utterly full of fraudulent scams and grifters. Bring on regulations and HEAVY fines for Google making profit of fraud and crimes.