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YouTube is the only platform that has sponsor block plugin which allows you skip all ads, self promotions etc.. Hard to compete with that.

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Hitting “+30s” for free in Apple Podcasts competes pretty well in my experience.

Need someone to create a platform agnostic sponsorblock for any podcast app, just for the convenience of automatic skipping. Perhaps like a proxy for the RSS feed that spits out edited audio files? Edit: looks like someone has thought of this, if the podcast is hosted on YouTube: https://github.com/ericmedina024/podcast-sponsor-block

But yeah, I'm fine with using the skip x seconds in my podcast app as well for now.

The challenge with that is that unlike those things that sponsorblock is skipping, most podcast ads these days are dynamically inserted at time of stream/download. This means that some listeners get them and some listeners don't.

They are also dynamic based on geographic location from which you download, which results in drastically different ad loads based on where you live. This is probably one of the reasons that a sponsorblock-for-podcasts has not yet happened.

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