Comic Strips

dead trees?

"Raid, Shadow Legends"

It's also so weird how different people react to it. I roll my eyes the whole time and skip past it, I figured that is what everyone did (except for mbmbam sometimes if they have good jokes during it. I have never even considered trying out one of the products. I always figure those who have to rely on advertising extremely heavily are shit, like Raycons and BetterHelp.

Yeah same. My gf just out of nowhere comes and is like look at this cool thing I saw on Instagram.

Sorry darling that ia clearly a sponsored post aka an ad.

My SO comes to me and literally plays the reel then says "WE NEED THIS" or "WE HAVE TO DO THIS".

Podcast ads can be some of the most acceptable, when it’s the hosts reading about products they might’ve used / didn’t mind using.

If a quick “sub to Audible” is the difference between a Patreon paywall / content unavailable & free listening, well, make it quick pls 😉

sidebar - shoutout styropyro for some ad for a science desk where he lit the one he got free on fire. Sponsorblockers missed a fun segment there (arguably making up for it with less dubious supplement spam of course)

Edit: that might not be the exact video but it’s awesome

I've said this since being a kid in the 90s.

There should be a huge collection (I called it a book or catalog at the time because the Internet wasn't widely available yet) that does all the different companies that do X things or provide Y service (kinda like yellow pages, but with more information than just a phone number) that is filterable in tons of ways (by default, region) and if you need or want anything you just look up who provides it and make your decision by the information available there.

But it should stay contained in that book (or whatever form it takes) and legally not be allowed outside of it. Every other piece of "free" content (podcasts, and people you find interesting) should actually be free.

But capitalism.

I'm almost always listening to podcasts while doing things like driving, exercising, or biking, so no I can't really dick around with my phone to skip stuff easily most of the time.

Which adblockers work on Podcasts?

Good tip for Spotify folks

OK now not to preach!
A couple people have argued we can avoid consolidating more power in Spotify, who envisions a world of exclusive/proprietary podcasts, by going with other options