How about subscribing to podcasts’ RSS feeds the way god intended and put them into a proper podcatcher like AntennaPod instead of listening to them on Spotify or whatever tf it is y’all are doing? I’ve listened to tons of podcasts for many years, and I didn’t even know dynamic adds were a thing. How could you all let this happen to you?
I have never used Spotify. This injection is directly done by the podcast server, it will happen on whatever player you use.
AntennaPod can still fall victim to serverside ad injection.
Yea, dude doesn’t know how modern podcast ads work.
firefox and ublock origin reject subscriptions
They don’t help if the ad is embedded directly into the podcasts mp3 file by the podcasters server
sponsorblock type stuff can skip it
See also: podcast host says “here’s some ads” to avoid semi-automated ads from the parent company randomly happening in the middle of a sentence. Ads still appear randomly in the middle of a sentence.
I’ve never heard an ad mid-sentence. Surely that’s an error on the podcasters side. Don’t they have to mark the timecodes for ad placements?
I have many times and that’s what I’m saying: that it’s happening even when the hosts do their part.
I think the answer as consumers, is to turn that shit off and go elsewhere at that point.
Nah, they’re not gonna bully me away from listening to the Bad Hasbara podcast, to name one where it’s happened to me. I’ll just skip the ads in my player while silently cursing whomever put them there.
I’m still able to manage blocking ads in all forms of media that I consume. No unintended shifting of timestamps.
yeah if something gets through my adblocks I’ll just watch / do something else instead.
How do you do it for podcasts? I already use mullvad Adblock dns, but that doesn’t seem to work
Just download the podcast from the source. Ads are injected by 3rd parties.
Not necessarily. A lot of podcasts are hosted by places that detect your ip and splice in location-targeted ads for each individual download. Hence OP’s struggle with timestamps.
Even off of Spotify etc, the source is poisoned.
If you have some magical podcast app that can do that I would love to know what it’s called.
Its called “not listening to those ad-ridden pieces of crap”-podcasts. Vote with your wallet and attention.
Unfortunately, the masses will still listen, so myself not listening will do jack-shit. The real way to do that would be a service or app that strips them out entirely.
It all has to start somewhere…taking the apathetic approach is not only not helping, but you’re a part of what’s making it worse by just accepting it.
It all has to start somewhere…
That “somewhere” ought to be complaining to the FTC etc., because boycotts are hardly ever effective. We’ve put the mythical “free market” on such a pedestal these days that it seems like a lot of us forget that consumer protection regulation is even an option!
That “somewhere” ought to be complaining to the FTC etc., because boycotts are hardly ever effective
I agree, but avoiding feeding in to the negative feedback loop that you want changed is a good thing until that happens.
That’s just not true. There will always be ads in podcasts, no matter if I listen to them or not; it’s how they make money. That’s not apathetic, it’s a fact. If someone made a sponsorblock for podcasts, it would help immensely, which is what my original comment was about. Blaming one single person for there being ads in podcasts is something else.
I listen to a few podcasts that have no ads at all, so that’s also not true.
I’m not blaming any single person, I’m blaming the attitude they (and many people in general) approach it with.
It is true that some podcasts make money via other means, for sure. I didn’t intend to say all podcasts, but many (most?) do have ads as the only way they make money. However, do you not want a Sponsorblock for others so you can have your cake and eat it too, just like you do now with adblockers? That’s how you really give them the middle finger.
