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[-] Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world 118 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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[-] yesterdayshero@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year 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.

[-] yesterdayshero@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] wooki@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year 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

[-] 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.

[-] wooki@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year 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.

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