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Is there a sponsor block situation for Podcasts? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by akilou@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I'm happy to adopt a new podcast app if it has sponsorblock natively or through a plug-in. Otherwise let me know if there's some other way to make it work. I don't see why it wouldn't work as all of the segments tagged for skipping are crowdsourced which would also work for Podcasts.

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[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I suppose the solution would be having people tag a soundbite at the beginning and at the end of each ad slot. Then when the app "hears", the beginning soundbite it can just skip forward until it finds the ending one.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

I like this idea. It crowdsources the "fingerprint" of the ads themselves. So as more and more people get the same exact ad, and then tag it, it would be easier to skip that one. So it would reduce the same annoying ads from playing in, this Lemmy post is brought to you by BetterHelp talk to real live therapists about your podcast woes now, the middle of what you are focusing on. If it got big it would make advertisers change their format, but that would be good, less of the canned ads and maybe something more organic and less jarring.