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Re:Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads by danShumway on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:28PM (#21706556)
Pure curiosity, is this based off of Adblock Radio?

https://github.com/adblockradio/adblockradio

I've been curious for a while how hard it would be to proxy my podcast feeds through a local server that stripped ads. As far as I can tell, this stuff has to be done dynamically per-file -- sharing timestamps don't work because ads are dynamically injected during each download.

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Re:Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads by adskipprod on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:05PM (#21706958)
It's not using Adblock Radio, though that is an interesting idea. All new technology.
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Re:Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads by dest on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:17PM (#21707113)
Creator of Adblock Radio here. If some day you are able to share your approach to filter ads, especially native ones, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Re:Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads by hombre_fatal on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:24PM (#21707207)
Their homepage shows you the few podcasts they support which suggests some sort of manual pattern recognition per channel. It's clearly not a general solution like adblockradio.
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Re:Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads by psalminen on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:53PM (#21707575)
Yeah, looking at the list I know 99pi and Reply-all play special music at the beginning of their ads.
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