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And it seems they're making every effort to drive you crazy if you don't subscribe to premium.

Hulu is doing something similar using crazy loud ads on their non-premium subscription. Searching their support forums for "ads too loud" brings up threads going back multiple years. I thought this practice was illegal, but perhaps there is a loophole when it comes to streaming content?

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Spotify mastered this a decade ago. They could detect when your PC volume was muted during an ad. They'd pause the ad and resume it once the mute was turned off.

One of many good reasons to get an external dac with volume control on it. Ain't nothing Spotify can do if I just turn the volume down like that.

Even if it is (I’m not sure), good luck getting regulators to do anything.

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