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It has to do with sound compression. It’s not so much that it’s louder, more that the average sound level is higher.
That said, fuck them.
Yeah, having worked on ads you can be sure we check our levels to make the most of the audio's range. It's a technical issue not an intentional one. The people to be annoyed at are the content creators who don't check their levels and have quiet audio so you get blasted when properly mixed audio in an ad kicks in.
I thought for TV at least they are regulated on average loudness, so they take advantage of that to make parts of the commercial super loud.
Yeah, I assumed we were talking about streaming like youtube.