[jrmg]

I don’t think it can skip automatically. I’m an Overcast user, and haven’t heard of this - and can’t find the feature now that I look.

It does have configurable “skip forward” and “skip backward” _times_, and will skip to and resume from between words instead of inside words - so it’s easier to manually skip than in some other apps - but I don’t think there’s anything automatic.

[Edit: Oh! It can skip a configurable amount of time from the start and end of playback of any podcast! It’s still manual though.]

[istjohn]

I used Audacity to excerpt a clip from a podcast the other day and the ads were obvious just from the shape of the waveform. The ad section waveforms were half the height of the rest of the podcast. I don't know how representative that one podcast is.