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Re:Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads by Akababa on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:57PM (#21706856)
You could say the same thing about adblockers in general. It's unfortunately pushed more content creators to put up paywalls and move to subscription-based models.

The smart thing to do with apps like this is to keep it to yourself, but inevitably someone will release one for the masses.

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Re:Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads by rahuldottech on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:59PM (#21706881)
Yeah, but ads on the web have lots of issues like tracking and malicious code injection, so blocking them makes total sense.

A lot fewer people would be using ad blockers in browsers if web ads were as simple as podcast ads (the equivalent would be unobtrusive static images with links) .

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Re:Show HN: I built a podcast app that skips over the ads by zozbot234 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:12PM (#21707044)
> (the equivalent would be unobtrusive static images with links)

You could also have dynamic images thank to GIFs. Just think of the possibilities that would be enabled by that - "Hit the monkey!", "Shoot the gangster!" - An incredibly effective way to drive engagement.

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