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I also use Pocket Casts ..and I just skip the ads manually. I set the skip forward time to 30 seconds and I set skip back to 10, makes it pretty easy to hop past them.

Man I love that app so much it really leveled up my TV YouTube experience especially with sponsorblock built in

I suppose the solution would be having people tag a soundbite at the beginning and at the end of each ad slot. Then when the app "hears", the beginning soundbite it can just skip forward until it finds the ending one.

I have noticed the Dynamic ads are audibly different in many ways. Like higher volume or has music added. I wonder if we could use that to auto detect the ads and skip it?

for dai, I suggest using ad blocking DNS like adguard. not perfect but it's easy and painless.

Man I hate this new dynamic and insertion bs. For 15 years all the podcasts I listened to had host-read ads. And in most cases, I had enormous trust in the podcaster to choose companies that he was willing to stand behind. I've used products I first heard about on a host-read podcast as before, and never regretted it.

But in the last 12 months I've been getting dynamically inserted ads a lot more. Partly because those older podcasts are using them to supplement income as advertisers are less willing to buy host-read ads than they once were (a lack of data and targeting when buying a podcast ad spot is the biggest factor, but also laziness on the part of marketing managers because host-read ads need to be negotiated and bought individually, rather than making single big buys in automated insertion systems), but mostly because I've started listening to a few newer podcasts that weren't around in the heyday of podcasting.

And it really sucks. More and more it's feeling like the podcasting industry is being enshittified, not even because of the desires of podcasters themselves, but thanks to advertisers hating the idea that podcast ads were more like TV ads than internet banner ads/YouTube preroll video ads, and thanks to big businesses like Spotify coming into the audio content market. (N.B., it's very important to remember that what Spotify does is not podcasting. By definition if it's delivered via a proprietary service rather than the open RSS standard, it is not podcasting.)

The problem is, a lot of podcasts are using dynamic ads insertion, which means the ads are added on the fly when user download an episode. Ads length could be different from person to person, and there's a possibility of empty slot too, where the podcast unable to sell the slot. "We'll be back after this short message," and jump straight into the next segment. No ad.

Omg that explains why I got an ad in my native language in Adam Conover's podcast

This is not a solution. It's like when there are too many ads on a site, stop using the site instead of just using an adblocker. Eventually I won't be able to listen to any podcasts with this "solution".

Podcast Addict as well (also has skip silence)

But every ad on every episode of every podcast can be different. Right now with pocket cast, I skip ahead 30 seconds at a time then go back 10 seconds. But I'd rather automate it

You can also set for each podcasts a skip intro and outro time.

Hm! I look forward to trying Antennapod or pocketcasts since Gpodcasts is getting the Google Funeral treatment. :( Thanks for the likely superior alternatives.

Sponsorblock does this with just regular I, not AI. E.G. crowdsourcing the sponsored segments

Crowd sourcing works great. First person marks it, everyone else gets to enjoy it without the ads.

Different podcasts

I have pihole and I still get ads when I stream from home

Can you prove any more info on this? Is the pihole automatically stopping the ads from downloading? It sound like it's at least a partial solution.