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I wanted to listen to the Otherworld podcast, but the first thing I hear is an ad localized for my IP-region. My instant reaction to those is to immediately hit pause and stop listening. I looked at their patreon and it has less posts than there are episodes, so I assume you can't even get ad free episodes from there.

Is there some way to filter ads out of podcasts, or a site that has feeds for podcasts with the ads cut out?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If it's a localised ad, then it's not in the uploaded audio track, and can be blocked with adblockers (uBlock Origin) or something more advanced like PiHole

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm playing through Antenna-pod, so I assume those get embedded into the mp3.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

From discuss.privacyguides.net

When you download the episode, the ads are injected into the file and those ads are based upon the country you are in. Sadly, there is no way to block those ads without blocking the download itself.

Not pihole, not uBlock, nuffin

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

if you can vpn to a market that they don't sell ads in maybe it would just not inject anything? or at least you'd get some default non-localize thing

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Coincidentally, on that same thread (and yes BTW)

One recommendation is to put your vpn endpoint in a country you don’t speak the language of. You will still hear them but they wont be effective.