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The Billion-Dollar Machine vs. One Free Extension (i.redd.it)
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[–] 1 point 7 hours ago (4 children)

If a podcast tries to play an ad I will drop everything to hard focus on the phone and hit the ff until it’s back.

I decided to try getting into podcasts the other day. I started listening to one, hit an ad, and immediately shut it off.

Until I figure out how to get some kind of "SponsorBlock for podcasts" (I looked into it a little, but the solutions all seemed to involve a selfhosted middleman instead of something built directly into an app on my phone), no podcasts for me.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago (3 children)

    I don’t think it’s possible. Trevor Noah reads his own ads, how do you block that? Stewart, reads his own ads. Others, like Behind the Bastards, straight commercials. It’s pretty common.

    For now, audiobooks are clean. The library is clean.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

    I don’t think it’s possible.

    Do you know what SponsorBlock is? It's a thing that crowdsources identifying the embedded ads in Youtube videos and manually marking them to be skipped over.

    The solutions I found are literally "SponsorBlock, but for podcasts" -- either by using Youtube Sponsorblock to remove the embedded ads from the Youtube copy of the podcast and then repackaging it in an RSS feed for your podcast app to download, or by forking SponsorBlock and running it against Spotify instead of Youtube.

    potential solution why I rejected it
    Pinchflat+Sponsorblock (https://lemmy.world/post/30510539) requries a selfhosted service separate from the podcast app
    https://github.com/ericmedina024/podcast-sponsor-block requries a selfhosted service separate from the podcast app
    https://spotsponsorblock.org/about/ browser extension for use with spotify.com, not an app

    Basically, I'm holding out until I can get Sponsorblock integrated directly into AntennaPod (or some other podcast app available from F-Droid).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (1 child)

    I’m guessing it’s a paid sub? I use ublock for free, on Mozilla, and that deals with YouTube.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago*

    "Paid sub?" What?

    No, uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock are both browser extensions (and both free in terms of cost and freedom). uBlock blocks the ads that YouTube inserts into the stream as separate files. SponsorBlock blocks the ads that the Youtubers themselves embed into the video before uploading. Even if the Youtuber is reading out a sponsor message himself without so much as a jump cut, SponsorBlock can block it as long as somebody else who saw the video before you marked the start and end timestamps. (It also lets users categorize what kind of segment it is, so it can skip self-promotion, intros, "like, comment, subscribe", etc.)

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