Ability to skip ads in the podcast

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@myfirstnameispaul

these podcasters are not employing angels assisting them with their efforts: they are usually working with the worst of the worst, and blocking those ads can force either the advertisement providers or the podcaster to improve the advertising service.

There are some bad examples indeed. Yet, if they had the luxury, knowledge and/or headspace to do differently, they probably would.

At the same time, inserting ads mid-sentence is just dumb IMHO and any respectable podcaster would avoid that at all cost. If they don’t I’d agree it’s probably not worth listening to.

All that to say that this little app called AntennaPod (we have a tiny marketshare) blocking some ads, probably is not gonna change that industry for the good. Innovation is not the result of ad-blocks, rather of better alternatives being offered. If we block ads, it’s only introducing an easy negative argument (whether about AP specifically or open podcast apps in general).

@myfirstnameispaul

An adlbock feature could also be accomplished as a plugin, relieving the core developers

Rather challenging, but we’re open to the idea. We’ve recently opened this issue for it: Allow creating plug-ins · Issue #7917 · AntennaPod/AntennaPod · GitHub