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Creator of Adblock Radio here. If some day you are able to share your approach to filter ads, especially native ones, I would greatly appreciate it.
Their homepage shows you the few podcasts they support which suggests some sort of manual pattern recognition per channel. It's clearly not a general solution like adblockradio.
Founder here: I think that many people already skip the ads using the 30 second skip forward button. I know I did before building this app. I'm also thinking about safety -- people driving their car and reaching for their phone to skip the ads.
Honest question: were you expecting this backlash - I would assume you wouldn't have used a throwaway account otherwise.
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Is it ethical not to look at a billboard when you're walking down the street? Is it ethical to mute the TV when commercials come up? I think it's just your choice, right?
I believe this is false equivalency. I probably agree with the overall argument that it's not unethical, but in both examples you give you're not requesting someone's service in exchange for nothing. For TV, you're already paying for a service, so do what you will. For billboard's, you're literally getting nothing in return or asking to be bombarded by ads. A better example would probably adblocking on either YouTube…
There are still lots of people who watch ad supported TV broadcast over the air. So I think muting commercials or recording with a DVR and skipping over later is a decent analogy.
Next you could make an app that lets you go into small independent stores and shoplift things without getting caught.
That is an interesting angle, but I can't see the similarity. Podcasts are open and freely available to download. People are already skipping the ads with a 30 second forward button. This app skips automatically.
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Isn't it only geo-based though? Of the IP you are downloading from? Fine. Do that. That is still very unobtrusive
It isn't clear exactly what they are doing nor have they said what their plans are. I think NPR bought Pocket Casts and I doubt they spent all that money with no plans for a return on that investment.
It's turning into the video streaming scene
Founder here: I think that many people already skip the ads using the 30 second skip forward button. I know I did before building this app. I'm also thinking about safety -- people driving their car and reaching for their phone to skip the ads.
This is a massive stretch - anyone who hates adverts enough to risk crashing a car shouldn't be driving one. They're annoying - but this is childish behaviour. Honest question: were you expecting this backlash - I would assume you wouldn't have used a throwaway account otherwise.
I came here to judge - but if there's no way of paying for the adverts to go away (stitcher? maybe spotify (I pay, but don't use it for podcasts)) I have sympathy. Skeptoid did offer a nice/hacky/old-school solution likely to work with your favourite player - subscribe manually with ~ : @ podcasts.xml" rel="nofollow">http:// : @ podcasts... Providing your player lets you put in a URL - it "works" and doesn't require…
This is quite common - many podcast apps, if not the very biggest ones, support feed importing and those feeds can include a username and password. It's really not that complicated, it just looks like a long URL and in most cases you can click on it in an email or website on your phone, and add it directly to the podcast app from there. The hard part at the moment is the friction from your podcast app to paying to "u…
As stated - it's getting the initial adoption going that's problematic. Probably pointing out the obvious, but NPR bought my favourite client Pocket Casts. At naive glance, looks like a good fit. NPR already has an excellent group of people who've donated (so whole bunch of people paying already) and with this would give them a way of rewarding them with the adverts removed. Plus think both sides of this would be advocates for still allowing the output to be available widely, and not walled up somewhere.
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There's a difference between you manually skipping the ad and the app automatically skipping the ad.
Yes, one is much nicer, as I can achieve it with no ongoing effort without being so rich I can afford to pay someone else to do it for me. When tech lets me preserve my time and attention in exchange for little or no money, while doing the same without it would only be feasible for the very rich, is when it makes me the happiest.
Very cool idea, I'm curious about how this was built and works. I'm also curious if you think you'll face any challenges or if Apple will allow this to live on the play store?
I can't tell how it works, because I don't want to create competitors. I don't see why Apple would have a problem with it. Their own "Podcasts" app lets you skip ads. This app finds the ads and skips automatically.