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Haha, I know what you mean. I think almost everyone skips the ads to a certain extent. But you still end up hearing about them at some point. Some of my favorite podcasts are Lex Fridman, Tim Ferris and Andrew Huberman. So there is no way around hearing some "Athletic Greens" ads. And after a while, I actually bought some :D

Great to hear your feedback regarding tipping. Maybe we should prioritize this feature.

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I'll admit, I'm very fond of PocketCasts, so it'll take rather a lot to get me to switch. But tipping is a feature I'd consider it for.

Ok, I added a vote to this feature for you in our internal feature request tracking ;) What do you love about PocketCasts the most?

I think my favorite feature is its good toolkit for speeding things up. I listen to most podcasts at about 1.4x, and there's a button for removing silences. I have no idea how they do it, but it doesn't sound unnatural. It just peps up the pace and makes people sound more lively. I've used other apps and their speedup algorithms aren't as good.

All told with its various speedup features, I download about 30 hours of podcasts a week, but I probably spend half of that actually listening. (At least some of that is ditching episodes I find dull, but not many.)

Other than that I really am just used to my "workflow". New stuff gets downloaded and added to a queue. I imagine most podcast apps have something like that, but this one has a nice feature set for managing it all.

Thanks for asking. Good luck on your project!

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