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Spotify Premium has always had ads in podcasts. This isn't new or news. It's because podcasts have always had ads in them, very often baked right into the audio. That's just how podcasts are. Not really defending it, but with Spotify you're paying for the music. Podcasts are just there as an extra, unaffected by whether you're paying or not. The good thing is that when they're actual Spotify platform ads instead of b…
Podcasts have always had ads on Spotify (used to be baked into the mp3) but now they change tracks / insert the latest ad when they play — it's more intrusive as it's a noticeable skip, and you're not allowed to fast forward anymore (ugh I don't need to hear the same ad every single time)
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Please don't support or frequent Spotify podcasts. Podcasts should not be walled-garden, they should monetize directly and publicly by having the ads at the start or end or sometimes I guess interspersed. Truth be told, I'm starting to review my default "hatred" of ads. I hate ads for terrible Hard-R random shit. I can live with my podcasts advertising at least closer to being intelligent products but not personalise…
Because im complicated I will now argue the opposing position. One thing I really DO like about it is it does corden off a certain population of listeners that I'm happy to have set aside—although there's guests that I would appreciate listening to so I don't have to leave it to the news to engage with purely on the level of ideas rather than boosting their following or "stats" independant of their performance or emp…