ELI5. Why do active noise cancelling headphones/earbuds not protect your hearing?

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for example, you’re in a loud train station or in a place with loud tools but you hardly hear anything with noise cancelation. why is this not considered hearing protection?

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Saying that something offers hearing protection is a claim that it has been tested and shown to be effective at protecting the user’s ears. Most earbud/headphone makers won’t make such a claim because testing is expensive and anyway, that’s not what the product is for. It’s for listening to media. What is to prevent a user from cranking the music volume up too loud, damaging their hearing, and suing the device manufacturer because they claimed it was hearing “protection”?

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