Or even if it was only reported manually via humans, it would still be worth it to give them the option, and on more popular podcasts it could help lots of people. In the meantime, I just listen to the YouTube video version of the podcasts, which usually have sponsorblock.
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blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Probably too small of an audience but I’m amazed that someone hasn’t released a podcast app that has sponsorblock. Podcast ads are so predictable I’d imagine an ML model would have no issue detecting them.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The problem from what I’ve read is most ads are inserted on demand in the stream when you first play/download a podcast and there’s no easy way for software to tell them apart, not to mention they’re usually location based which means the ads you get are likely different from what I get, and depending where you live you might not even get ads at all.
blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I use antenna pod which is able to download as well, which seems to suggest that at some point the ads get fixed. Also they’re very consistent for me, enough that I can usually cut off the first 30 seconds of ads for certain podcasts (there’s a function to skip predefined sections).