As someone who aggressively adblocks everything, one of the final places that ads can still reach me is in annoying ad reads within podcasts. Youtube sponsorblock is incredible but it seems no one has yet adapted this for podcasts. Has anyone else managed to find a solution here? As far as i can tell in my googleing, this doesn’t yet exist. Anyone else extremely interested in something that skips/removes sponsor segments from podcasts?

  • Lotus Eater
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    291 year ago

    Brother, from one pirate to another, I think it would be more convenient to support your favorite podcast and they usually upload an ad free version for supporters.

    Lol

    • Helldiver_M
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      I have not found this to be the case. There are only a few podcasts I felt I enjoyed enough to financially support, and I stopped donations because I still had to sit through ads. I don’t like feeling as if I’m being monetized twice.

      Be really cool if more hosts made ad-free supporter versions.

    • nicetriangle
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      91 year ago

      Not for podcasts on big networks like iHeartRadio as far as I know.

      I’ve been listening to Stuff You Should Know for years and since iHeart bought them out the volume and shear annoyance of their ads has gone through the roof. Used to be the actual podcast presenters themselves doing a few quick spots for Squarespace or whatever. Wasn’t jarring because it was the same voices and they didn’t do a bunch of ridiculous zany bullshit. Now every episode has multiple 5-7 ad blocks of the most banal annoying crap.

      Would happily use sponsor block on that if I could. I would love a podcast app with this functionality built in.

      • prince of spaceOP
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        81 year ago

        IHeartradio is the worst. I have dropped off listening to podcasts I otherwise really like. Behind the bastards, anything Robert Evans does really. The ads are too bad.

        • Helldiver_M
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          51 year ago

          Behind the bastards makes it more bearable because they really take the piss out of the ads every time.

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            They’re lucky their content is high quality because god damn the pre-roll and inline ads are always absolute fucking garbage. I know the show host doesn’t control what ads the network uses, but they’ve literlly had USA military recruiting ads on their show, which is peak irony.

            I’ve set my podcast player to skip the first X seconds to get past the pre-roll, and my finger is trained to skip-forward through the ads, but some automated system would make life a lot easier (and listening to Behind the Bastards more enjoyable).

          • Scroll Responsibly
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            21 year ago

            Behind the Bastards has an ad free subscription now (on Apple Podcasts only but soon for Android apparently). Look up “Cooler Zone Media.”

            • Helldiver_M
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              21 year ago

              That’s good to hear! I’m not on iOS but I’ll keep an eye out for the Android solution.

        • nicetriangle
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          11 year ago

          I really hate them and would drop them in a hot min if it wasn’t that SYSK is like the best bedtime podcast in the world.

    • prince of spaceOP
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      41 year ago

      I do support a few to get ad free versions but these are almost nonexistent. very few podcasts do this.

      • Lotus Eater
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        21 year ago

        My mistake, I only do a few podcasts and they usually advertise their ad free stuff.

        • prince of spaceOP
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          31 year ago

          I do wish that was more common. I have no problem with Patreon to remove the ads.