It’s funny you mention that...I seem to remember a sci-fi book, “Contact” maybe, where one of the characters became a billionaire after inventing a device that sensed the decibel increase of TV commercials and would automatically mute the television...
It’s gotten so bad that we DVR all the programs we want to watch (mostly on cable) so we can fast forward through the loud commercials. Seems to me there was a VHS recorder some years back that automatically turned all commercials into a soundless blue screen. Wish I had bought one.
I could swear there was a TV or VCR that would automatically do that somewhere in the early 2000s. They'd sell every tv they could make on that single feature.