Had it up to here with commercials that crank the volume during your favorite streaming shows? Relief is on the way thanks to a new California law that seeks to dial down the intrusive ads.

Signed on Monday by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, SB 576 mandates that commercials broadcast by streaming services shouldn’t be any louder than the programs they’re accompanying.

If the language of the new legislation sounds familiar, you might be thinking of Congress’s Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (or CALM) Act, which was passed in 2010. That law also sought to curb annoyingly loud commercial breaks, but it only applied to broadcast and cable TV operators, not streaming services.

“We heard Californians loud and clear, and what’s clear is that they don’t want commercials at a volume a

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