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California has passed a law to ban loud commercials on streaming platforms like Netflix and Hulu.
This is great news for people who don't want to wake the neighborhood up when a streaming show suddenly turns into an aggressively loud ad for migraine medication.
Governor Gavin Newsom just signed the law and the ban goes into effect on July 1, 2026. On that date, streaming services won't be allowed to “transmit the audio of commercial advertisements louder than the video content the advertisements accompany."
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