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Benno Sep 24, 2024

The lack of surveillance-based tracking for podcasts is a feature, not a bug, and a happy outcome of the format having been built around open standards instead of a single monopolistic company.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@jbillinson/post/DARuFKky5ju

Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) on Threads

It’s really amazing that the podcast industry lasted for so long on an ad-supported model while also giving every user a button that instantly skips forward the length of roughly one ad

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Raven667 Sep 25, 2024

@anildash honestly this is a great example of how you can have ad supported media, pretty much the same as business model and techniques as radio/TV, without all the surveillance and ... It's fine, really.

The surveillance is the problem more than the existence of ads and it's provably unnecessary