By Ryan Sabalow, CalMatters

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning ads that are substantially louder than the shows on streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu.

Even California’s governor is fed up with obnoxiously loud advertisements that pop on when he’s streaming his favorite shows.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Monday that bans streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu from playing advertisements substantially louder than the programming they accompany.

Newsom signs hundreds of bills each year with little fanfare, reserving bill-signing announcements typically for only the measures that he and his team find the most noteworthy or in which the governor is personally invested.

He sent one out announcing he’d signed Senate Bill 576 .

“We heard Californians loud and

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