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…
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.
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…
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.
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.