[oauea]

All uploads should be checked by someone working at Spotify for compliance with their ToS, which should include not allowing ads.

[mimon]

There are millions of podcasts adding thousands of hours of content every day, how is this even remotely feasible? Why would Spotify want to do this anyway? If you don't like it when a podcast includes ads then don't listen to that podcast, this has nothing to do with Spotify.

[oauea]

Hire more people to skim through them? They could afford to spend 100m on an exclusivity contract.