this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2023
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I think it's because privacy is less an issue with podcasts (ads don't have as many options to track) and enshitification of the experience has been on a slower roll than, say, youtube. Lately some solutions are out there in the form of commercial apps but they are limited and who knows if their biz model will survive. I'd like to see an open source solution but I haven't found one.
example: https://www.adblockpodcast.com/
Signed up, I don't mind paying but it seems like everything is $10, like I'm not signing up to Rooster Teeth's site and pay $7/month just so I can listen to a single podcast. It's taking me about 5 mins a file to open, strip the intro, find the midroll, delete the midroll and strip the outroll. Will that get annoying longterm... probably, but it saves me paying for a bunch of content I don't care about.