I’m happy to adopt a new podcast app if it has sponsorblock natively or through a plug-in. Otherwise let me know if there’s some other way to make it work. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work as all of the segments tagged for skipping are crowdsourced which would also work for Podcasts.
None that I’ve found has anything close to SponsorBlock for youtube, in theory it could work, even SponsorBlock has open issue for it.
The problem is, a lot of podcasts are using dynamic ads insertion, which means the ads are added on the fly when user download an episode. Ads length could be different from person to person, and there’s a possibility of empty slot too, where the podcast unable to sell the slot. “We’ll be back after this short message,” and jump straight into the next segment. No ad.
I suppose the solution would be having people tag a soundbite at the beginning and at the end of each ad slot. Then when the app “hears”, the beginning soundbite it can just skip forward until it finds the ending one.
I have noticed the Dynamic ads are audibly different in many ways. Like higher volume or has music added. I wonder if we could use that to auto detect the ads and skip it?
Idk everybody’s situation, but I just listen like this and manually skip ads. My car has buttons on the steering wheel for forward and backward (if I skip back into the podcast). My earbuds skip forward and backward with double presses on the right and left earbud respectively. Listening otherwise, it’s not that hard for me to grab my phone and skip through a few minutes of ads. Would it be better if it were automatic? Sure. But I’m much more annoyed by YouTube ads popping up every 3-7 minutes.
My ads only come on when it is the absolute worst situation to interact with my device.
Holding a basket of laundry???! Oh better play and ad.
Are your hands muddy from cleaning out a gutter? Better play an ad.
You handling raw chicken??? It is ad time!!!
Their are ways to avoid YouTube ads. YouTube is my favorite platform without ads.