Experimenting with AntennaPod I notice that quite a few podcasts use unencrypted HTTP over port 80. For example, podcasts from the BBC. AntennaPod itself offers no way to require TLS.

Also, AntennaPod does not strip the tracking information from podcast URLs.

Self-hosting a podcast server might not be a bad idea.

Yes, you can self host it on nextcloud server, really awesome.

I love antennapod. My only complaint is it doesn't work well in android's "driving" mode (seems to list all episodes instead of my queue)