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

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (18 children)

I really want podcast apps to hook into SponsorBlock.

Right now I'm listening to very few English podcasts because of all the advertisement. I switched to German and Swedish because most of them don't have any advertisement in them.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's not quite the same, but Pocket Casts lets you customize how many seconds the skip buttons go forward and back by, which can at least make it a little less tedious

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

God, I wish there was. If there is, I haven’t found it. And I’ve been looking

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

If the podcast is available on YouTube, Newpipe does the job brilliantly and you even have forks/options to skip sponsor ads too.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (3 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.

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