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Is there any Podcast players that autoskip ads? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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5 minute ad breaks every 15 minutes kinda ruin the experience.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If it's one of the podcasts that uses a service to auto-insert ads, you can always change your VPN to a country that wouldn't be relevant and it'll usually download without ads. It almost always works if I set mine to Japan or Thailand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Fascinating, I’ll give that a try, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Huh, TIL that is how the ads worked with Podcasts... Does it transcode the audio file?

It is funny to have Spanish ads while I listen to English podcasts lol (native language is Spanish).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Obviously, the live read ads by the podcast hosts will still be there, but yep, the other ads are all usually targeted ones inserted when you download it. Once it's downloaded, you can change your VPN back to wherever so you don't have to deal with every site defaulting to Thai or Japanese lol.

This works better than the "skip x seconds" idea others have since some podcasts have mid-show ads, too.