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Pure curiosity, is this based off of Adblock Radio?

https://github.com/adblockradio/adblockradio

I've been curious for a while how hard it would be to proxy my podcast feeds through a local server that stripped ads. As far as I can tell, this stuff has to be done dynamically per-file -- sharing timestamps don't work because ads are dynamically injected during each download.

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It's not using Adblock Radio, though that is an interesting idea. All new technology.

Creator of Adblock Radio here. If some day you are able to share your approach to filter ads, especially native ones, I would greatly appreciate it.

Their homepage shows you the few podcasts they support which suggests some sort of manual pattern recognition per channel. It's clearly not a general solution like adblockradio.

Yeah, looking at the list I know 99pi and Reply-all play special music at the beginning of their ads.

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