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5 minute ad breaks every 15 minutes kinda ruin the experience.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Podcasts are a leftover from the non centralized and non-monetized internet of the past. Because is that most Podcasts are still available as rss feeds, so you should only ever get adds if they are spoken by the Podcasts hosts. Ate you taking about those? Only something like sponsorblock would help against those. I use antennapod (fdroid) on android to listen to Podcasts. Sine hosts always start their podcast with an add, but you can autoskip the first minute of a certain podcast with antennapod every time. It has a setting for that. Antenna pod itself is foss software without adds.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Many modern podcast solutions seem to be injecting ads into the audio file they serve, to varying degrees of success.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Google is doing this. I will see the time increase and get random skip backs pl on antenna pod.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah, any decent podcast app that has a 10s / 15s time skip is the only reliable way to deal with ads. Just skip ahead a few times until the ad is over.

If there were a reliable way to auto-skip ads then ads would lose all their value which could shut down some of our favorite podcasts. It sucks that ads are a necessary evil for podcasting, but there is no clean way around that unless we dismantled capitalism and switched to some hybrid of market socialism and public funding