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Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts

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Re: Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts

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Post by Nextgrid »

Tepix wrote: post #7

I think the podcasts i listen to will not work, the moderators speak the ads themselves. Luckily it‘s easy to skip ahead 15 seconds at a time. At least ads in podcasts cannot track me so i don‘t feel i have to block them for that reason alone.

There's a thing called "server side ad injection" (more like cancer injection) that inserts arbitrary ads directly in the audio stream so the ad is independent from the original producer. Presumably they do some rudimentary tracking based on IPs, user-agent and whether your podcast client downloaded the file past the point where the ad is injected.

Re: Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts

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Post by dest »

heavenlyblue wrote: post #10
Yuval_Halevi wrote: post #6

Usually, I don't like when projects describe themselves using large brands as comparison. But this one is great 'Machine learning meets Shazam.'

This is like saying "SERP meets Google".

Actually Shazam is tech for acoustic fingerprinting, which is quite far away from machine learning. In your example SERP and Google name almost the same thing.

Re: Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts

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Post by diffeomorphism »

Neat software, but I think this is less defensible than other ad blockers.

With web ad blockers you protect against tracking, privacy violations and potentially malware and thus don't see "unacceptable ads". In contrast this seems to be about blocking ads just for the sake of blocking ads.

Re: Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts

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Post by jordanpg »

Right now, there's teams of people at companies like Spotify and Stitcher, frantic in front of whiteboards, trying to plan a future for podcasts wherein it will be harder/impossible to skip the ads.

First, they have to control the distribution. Then, they have to build the tech, which will obviously involve some kind of DRM.

To say that I hope they fail is an understatement.

But I know they'll try because in the internet economy, companies simply must fight, kick, and scratch for every last fraction of penny of advertising revenue.

I hope that they are unable to wrest sufficient control over the distribution channels to force this ugly future upon us. Indie podcasts will be safe, but the well-produced, mainstream podcasts will go the way of cable TV and it will be gross. Ads ruin everything.

Re: Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts

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Post by joshvm »

person_of_color wrote: post #14

Could this wrok on TV?

I was about to say that Tivo has offered this in a limited capacity for a while. Unfortunately it looks like they're actually forcing people to watch ads on recordings now.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/21/20876976/tivo-pre-roll-ad...

Re: Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts

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Post by throwawawathrow »

diffeomorphism wrote: post #15

Neat software, but I think this is less defensible than other ad blockers. With web ad blockers you protect against tracking, privacy violations and potentially malware and thus don't see "unacceptable ads". In contrast this seems to be about blocking ads just for the sake of blocking ads.

Yeah that's the point. Fuck ads.

Re: Adblock Radio: An adblocker for live radio streams and podcasts

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Post by obituary_latte »

diffeomorphism wrote: post #15

Neat software, but I think this is less defensible than other ad blockers. With web ad blockers you protect against tracking, privacy violations and potentially malware and thus don't see "unacceptable ads". In contrast this seems to be about blocking ads just for the sake of blocking ads.

Why would anyone have to defend blocking ads? It’s a personal choice that doesn’t negatively impact anyone. You could argue that if enough people did it, it could effect the potential advertising revenue, but if that were the case then the end result is not that “people are bad for blocking ads” but rather that the current state of advertising is incompatible with user needs and desires.
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