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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 39 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Dynamic ads in podcasts are absolutely terrible for this.

I am driving along listening to a podcast, and suddenly the ads appear at 50% higher volume, with zero warning.

I wonder if you could sue a podcast provider for dammages if you are hard of hearing and need the podcast playing loud, and the ads come on and blow your speakers out...

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 42 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

What should be especially illegal is those ads that use "alert" sounds. Door knocks/bells, phone rings, and worst of all, fucking car horn and other alarm noises.

Anything beeping or sounding like a siren should be completely forbidden for safety reasons.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 19 points 5 days ago

It’s literally the non-verbal equivalent of the classic “crying fire in a crowded theatre” scenario, it should already be illegal by existing law imo.

“Honking horn at the operator of high speed multi-ton machine on their radio” seems pretty clear cut recklessness in my book.