I didn't know any of those services had commercials.
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Haha. Exactly.
They've been doing that since the days when TV came from an antenna.
Also cranking up the audio compression because it apparently results in more noise (which occupies additional sound wavelengths, making our brain more alert) to work around laws abound sound levels
Half of lemmy who have either been pirating or freebooting since the mid 90's:
I have managed to cut ads out of my life so completely that I am legitimately offended by ads
Yep, they make me irrationally angry. Or rationally angry since fuck ads.
Totally this. When I iwatch live TV I will actively mute commercials. Literal ear cancer.
When I go to the office instead of being on my home network with a pihole, and I go to show a website in a meeting, I'm just embarrassed by what shows up because the site didn't look anything like that when I was looking at it previously at home. I legitimately don't know how people actually use websites that are 80% ads
I was fortunate enough to have some creative input into our browser policies at work. Needless to say, Adnauseum ublock origin and some password safe extensions got added to the allow list
This! I have ZERO ad tolerance, in any form. Most annoying thing is that you can't get rid of them in podcasts, other than hammering the fast-forward button.
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After my parents quit smoking, they ended up with this, IDK, "born again nonsmoker" attitude where they were completely disgusted by the smell of cigarette smoke and couldn't stand to be around it at all.
I have the same attitude about ads.
My parents quit smoking a few years ago, my mom had tried unsuccessfully to quit a few times, and what finally did it for her was getting a really bad cold during a really bad cold snap so she really didn't want to go outside to smoke. Then since she quit I think my dad just kind of hopped on the bandwagon with her.
But I remember one time, a year or two later, being at a party at their house with some friends sitting outside, and my one friend who is a smoker lights up, and she told him to come sit next to her because she still really liked the smell.
So different strokes for different folks I suppose.
I like the smell of certain brands of cigarettes, up close
when they're further than 3 feet away you lose the enjoyable delicate tobacco scent and can only smell the burnt ass shitty cig smell
Doesn't smoking suppress your sense of smell? I wonder if they couldn't smell how bad it is while they were still smoking.
Yep, but the key is that you become more sensitive to it after doing it and quitting than before you started.
Ya, I get that. I have to stop myself from being weird and overly aggressive about it when watching tv at a friend's house.
Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you!
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Every time I go to my moms place and see what they put up with on a fire stick, it makes me fucking sick.
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People watch ads? Just block and pirate.
I fixed that problem ages ago by just canceling all of those services...
Im the same way. I paid to get access to the World Cup games and was jarred by the commercials. Then I went over to my friends house and his kids were singing along to the commercials and repeating the lines lol
Whenever my partner and I stay at a hotel, we always get a kick out of how dystopian commercials have become.
what is this godforsaken screenshot formatting
Not the first time that legislation was in effect.
In the TV days, they implemented a moratorium on commercials getting louder. So they turned it down? Well the decreased the overall volume and fed that through compression so it sounds louder, but isn't actually any louder.
give em time, they're reinvent the old ways
Oh I just replied about this to another comment. Glad this is getting more well known
They are repeating the cable/broadcast ad service network playbook. All this shit has already been regulated on normal TV, and wasn't an issue with streaming because before, streaming didn't have ads like this. Now that they've normalized paying monthly fees AND being lasted with ads, the regulation has to play catch-up again. This should be something the FCC regulates, but good luck in this administration.
The FCC does not have jurisdiction over streaming. Good luck should be wished for the legislature.
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Commercials? Laughing in Jellyfin, ahrr!
Jeez, this has been going on for so long that parodies of these sorts of malicious practices are nearly a decade old. It’s about time. As usual, California has to be the voice of reason.
Only a decade? I recall legal action surrounding this shit in the '90s.
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As usual, California has to be the voice of reason.
Yeah, sometimes California does some brilliant shit like this, but then newsom does some stupid shit.
As a Californian, fuck Newsom.
We do have common sense laws that lead the nation in a lot of areas, but especially automobile safety and pollution. Manufacturers don't want to make a California specific version of their product, so it becomes the de facto standard for cars in the US.
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That's because they increased the gain during ads.
Which is a loophole in the California law.
Okay, so I have no idea about streaming services, but commercials on broadcast TV never had the volume increased but the compression.
(I love getting lost in details so apologies if any of this comes off condescending.) Compression works by making the quieter parts louder, without distorting the louder parts.
THINK of a SENTENCE where SOME of the WORDS are LOUD and OTHER words are QUIETER.
compression works by squishing down all the loud parts, then bringing everything back up to full volume, so the previous sentence would become:
THINK OF A SENTENCE WHERE SOME OF THE WORDS ARE LOUD AND OTHER WORDS ARE QUIETER.
Now, the loud parts didn’t become louder. What happened is that the quieter parts got louder. You lose the dynamic, but gain volume. If you think it would just be exhausting, you’re correct - even at low volumes, you can get a sense of ear fatigue when audio is heavily compressed.
Now, if you want to know why movies have quiet parts where you can’t hear shit and loud parts that are way louder, this is called dynamics. Artistically, you very much want this for the same reason you want quiet parts and loud parts in classical music. If everything is constantly loud, the dramatic moments won’t feel as impactful.
“But wait, I don’t enjoy that, I like having my TV at a reasonable volume!” Yup, me too. It’s fucking annoying. Mixing is done often on high quality speakers, loud volume, so you can get every detail. Most home setups dont have that nuance, and most people don’t care. Until execs can actually get proven that they’ll make more money by having consistent compression, you’re shit out of luck. You’ll probably have to get your own compression, either through software or hardware.
Source: used to work in sound engineering.
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Welcome to the real world, sweet summer child. Look around. The enshittification is everywhere. Once you see it you will ne'er be happy again.
I did bc I thought it was a really annoying bug for years until I realized they kept it as a feature. American media is over processed like American pig slop I mean food
"product"
Oh I definitely noticed. That's a large part of why I hate ads. They're unbearably obnoxious and obtuse.
Back in ye'old days when you paid for a streaming service and you didn't have a bunch of commercials...
I had no idea they were turning up the volume
WHAT? adjusts my hearing aid
The first thing my wife and I did this morning when we woke up was turn on streaming shit and check to see if they actually did this...
We of course live in California and I am happy to report that the first commercial that played was loud as hell. My wife immediately started trying to find the phone numbers so that we could call and complain lol
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When you use so much ad blocking that you didnt even realize these things had commercial breaks
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