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I think it's funny the outrage over ad skipping podcasts, but keeping browser ad-blockers installed is ok. I mean there is only so many times I can hear the same casper, generic vpn, eero, ad and not want to pull my hair out. Especially when the podcast boasts about how they use the product and how it's not like anything they've ever tried before.

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> but keeping browser ad-blockers installed is ok.

That's because web ads track you, can inject malicious code, and are obtrusive.

As I said elsewhere in the thread, a lot fewer people would be using ad blockers in browsers if web ads were as simple as podcast ads (the equivalent would be unobtrusive static images with links).

If you bought a DVR and recorded a TV show would you want the one with the commercial break skipper feature?

I sure would :)

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