normalize Ad volume with content volume
Not as frequently as before but still often, Ads play which are dramatically louder than the broadcast content. This is an annoyance, interferes with other people in the house, and frankly makes me more likely to mute the ad and go do something in a different tab.
Normalizing volume levels with stream average volume or peak volume wouldn't take a huge amount of processing power and would fix the problem entirely. It's required by the US's FCC in other broadcast mediums, but it's really just a quality of life improvement for the viewers and a mark of good production.

A majority of ads on web and TV apps should now have normalized sound. We are still continuing the work on this and will update the status again when it is fully complete!
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Anonymous commented
Ive gotten Ear damage because of these ads specially the HP omen ads im gonna send you guys my medical bill !!!!!
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plding commented
The ad is way too LOUD comparing to the volume I set for the stream
I think it wouldn't be a problem to balance the volume between the stream and ads
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Anonymous commented
I know you're very aware of some ad providers for making their ads way too loud and disabling the video controls. WHY is nothing being done to it? Get your shit together, the loud ads are why I cannot and will not watch twitch in the evenings anymore. It's ridiculous for you to expect us to sit in front of the computer always having windows mute button at hand.
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Anonymous commented
Ads appear too often and some of them are too loud. It's really annoying to see, you should really fix this.
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Anonymous commented
i'am consindering just boycotting twitch for their ad-policy. Iam seeing 10 ads in a hour from different streamers.... Twitch got REALLY BAD REALLY FAST!
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numberkruncher commented
Ads are way too loud.
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you knowit commented
FOR THE LOVE OF TRUMP, COULD YOU FUCKING USELESS SLUTS FIX THE FUCKING AD VOLUME LEVELS AND/OR ENABLE MUTE FOR THEM!!!!!!!1111!!!1
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libaf commented
Can't mute ads, can't even reduce their volume from the browser. Only way to make these earthshatteringly loud, force-fed noise intrusions any quieter is to mute the entire system. Ads have NEVER bothered me, until this started happening.
And for the first time in my few decades of Internet citizenship, I'm considering getting an adblocker. Get your shit together twitch. This is ridiculous.
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Anonymous commented
Yes! or at least add a separate volume button for ads.
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banana commented
twhitch it's very good, you can see every game...but... stop ads every 10 minutes pls when i reload the page or not... it's a good marketing strategy but can be not... Or make skip after few second
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Anonymous commented
ads are way too loud!!!!!
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DaJMasta commented
A loud preroll ad played while joining a new stream, I went to report it and the control overlay was not present. That means no reporting issues, no muting, nothing. It's laughable how little attention has been paid to fixing problems with the ad system, but even if we want to try and give you feedback on them, if the mechanism isn't there, we can't.
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Samuel Houot commented
At first, it was that crappy dubstep-like musical diarrhea that threatened to reduce my ability to hear if I didn't take my headphones off. Now it's some idiot raging at a game, screaming in my ears to promote the same HP computer. Tell HP to stop making their ads so damn loud and fix this problem ASAP, it makes me want to start blocking ads again! I'm so avoiding this company from now on, that's how pissed I am.
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DigitalSeahorse commented
Test ad volume with your own headphones because 90% of us use them while watching streams. Loud ads are becoming panic attack triggers!
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Atriokke commented
ABSOLUTELY anonym.
It's so ridiculous to be laying down at 4 am watching twitch and suddenly a stupid AD comes up and makes me have to get up and run for the mouse to mute it and then having to explain to the roommate who woke up in the next room cause of this stupid issue that has been there for as long as ive been using twitch !!!!!!!.... ****IN FIX IT. it's been 4 yrs already *sigh... Stop with the incompetence already.
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AxelJaeger-XIII commented
80% of your ads are REALLY too loud! They're basically jumpscares and ear rapes at the same time!!! Especially that HP Omen's spot!!!
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DigitalSeahorse commented
Please make volume lower than stream content so it becomes more equal with streams because ad people don't know how to preserve hearing on headphones!
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DaJMasta commented
After literally years of complaining about inconsistent and too loud ad volume, you run an ad for a twitch service that is just as loud or louder than anything else being shown at the time? How is that reasonable? Do you care at all about the ad experience for your viewers?
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Anonymous commented
I have been reporting a Canon camera ad, because it is horrendously loud. Let's see how this goes.