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Re:Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads by nickthegreek on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:48PM (#21706740)
How are they seeing that ads have been skipped? That seems like it would only happen if your player is spying on you.
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Re:Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads by reaperducer on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:08PM (#21707001)
That seems like it would only happen if your player is spying on you.

No. It works the same way any newspaper, radio, and TV advertising work.

If advertisers sponsor a podcast and get zero return, then the advertisers stops sponsoring the podcast and the podcast dies.

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Re:Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads by jmhnilbog on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:32PM (#21707314)
A world where all podcasts have lo-fi production values and only weirdos with too much time and a LOT of interest in the topic at hand make them would be wonderful. The audio version of the early web. They can have podcast web rings instead of ads!
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Re:Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads by ceejayoz on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:08PM (#21706998)
The coupon codes or referral links being advertised will see a drop in traffic.
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