[estiaan]

I used to listen to so many podcasts, and I would put up with the occasional ad read by the podcasters and baked into the audio

When dynamic ads became a thing in podcasts I was shocked. I thought something was wrong with my phone when I heard the first dynamic ad on Spotify. I actually questioned whether some adware had found its way onto my phone. For minutes I couldn’t figure out what was going on. That was also the day I disowned Spotify as it was a service I explicitly payed for to avoid ads.

These days the ads are everywhere and the baked in ones are longer and more frequent. I came to realise there’s fewer and fewer podcasts worth sitting through ads for. So at least in my anecdotal experience that’s why I don’t listen to podcasts as much anymore.