Better don’t make this behaviour public. It may be bad for the podcast ecosystem when advertisers catch on to that. /s
Idealism is a wonderful thing and pretty much the reason open source projects exist in the first place. So I’m not going to argue with those reasons.
But I do disagree that it would be harmful to podcasting itself. This is a fairly theoretical discussion, agreed, since AntennaPod is tiny compared to its competitors. And the fact that the biggest apps are made by Apple, Google and Spotify and those guys would never implement automatic ad skipping. So that’s most of the market you’re never going to change no matter what you do.
I assume that with ‘this project’ you refer to PodcastIndex?
I was talking about the microdonation cryptowallet thing. There are a lot of those services that never really caught on. Flattr, Drip, Blendle, Kachingle I’m sure there are a lot more. I don’t see why this time would be different.
I’m just saying I’d wait with putting work into this payment thing until this has become a somewhat established service. No need to be first on this one.