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Anon gets scammed (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Zanshi@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Wait what. I know some platforms for managing podcasts like Anchor shove in ads, sometimes even mid sentence, but this is the first I hear of Spotify itself inserting them

[–] vodka@feddit.org 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is what made a lot of people I know stop using Spotify for podcasts.

My coworker told me they were listening to a podcast, and while the podcasts host were mid ad read for their sponsor, Spotify put an ad in. So he got an ad during an ad.

[–] ExistingConsumingSpace@midwest.social 19 points 2 days ago

Thanks, Xzibit.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 8 points 2 days ago

Can confirm. I got annoyed with it and moved away from Spotify for podcasts a year or two ago. #NoRegrets

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah even on free I never got a Spotify add on a podcast. Those were the podcasts themselves putting ads in.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Podcasters that upload to Spotify have the option of inserting ads and making money from this

Most of my podcasts don't but some do, actually I think the ABC is the only one that does, and it says if you don't want to hear advertising use their podcast app, so maybe it's a way of punishing us for not using their app

Then again besides the ABC's If you're listening all my other podcasts are french language learning ones...

[–] jeffep@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did they stop just grabbing podcasts from the free web and playing them in Spotify? I remember from a few years ago that some podcasts were complaining and willing to sue Spotify for stealing their content.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't find anything on this at all

[–] jeffep@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That was some discourse in the podcasts, in Germany at the time which has a pretty big community

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why not just use antennapod?

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don't care for podcasts at all, it's just because they're adjacent to the app I use the most that I stumbled upon them, the ones I listen to don't have ads except the abc's if you're listening and it's what, 30 seconds for something I listen to maybe once a month?

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Oh I gotcha that makes sense.