Which are always less obnoxious, or obnoxious in the house style.

I mean they already have a 5 second skip button. I just hit it a few times and podcaster ad is over.

I cancelled because Spotify was injecting their own ads in my podcasts. Like clearly injected ads and not the podcasters’ embedded ones. Not sure if they are still doing it but that was the last straw for me as a long time premium member.

Out of all the subscriptions you picked the one
which makes one person richer on basis of other peoples media.

A character simply driving a Mercedes car is one thing. But podcast ads are more akin to a movie character entirely interrupting the flow of the film to stop and talk for two minutes straight about how great Mercedes is and to recite a series of specifications about that model car and gush at what a low price it is.