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Is there a sponsor block situation for Podcasts? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by akilou@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I'm happy to adopt a new podcast app if it has sponsorblock natively or through a plug-in. Otherwise let me know if there's some other way to make it work. I don't see why it wouldn't work as all of the segments tagged for skipping are crowdsourced which would also work for Podcasts.

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[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 1 points 8 months ago

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