I wanted to listen to the Otherworld podcast, but the first thing I hear is an ad localized for my IP-region. My instant reaction to those is to immediately hit pause and stop listening. I looked at their patreon and it has less posts than there are episodes, so I assume you can’t even get ad free episodes from there.

Is there some way to filter ads out of podcasts, or a site that has feeds for podcasts with the ads cut out?

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When you download the episode, the ads are injected into the file and those ads are based upon the country you are in. Sadly, there is no way to block those ads without blocking the download itself.

Not pihole, not uBlock, nuffin

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if you can vpn to a market that they don’t sell ads in maybe it would just not inject anything? or at least you’d get some default non-localize thing

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Coincidentally, on that same thread (and yes BTW)

One recommendation is to put your vpn endpoint in a country you don’t speak the language of. You will still hear them but they wont be effective.

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