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I'm honestly not sure what sort of tracking occurs with podcasts or if tracking and podcast ads go hand-in-hand. There must be some degree of audience analytics
by shanecleveland 5y ago
I'm honestly not sure what sort of tracking occurs with podcasts or if tracking and podcast ads go hand-in-hand. There must be some degree of audience analytics, I guess.
Generally, I am not sure that no-ads means no-tracking, either. Though, that could certainly be a selling point to paying for a service of any kind.
- dhritzkiv 5y agoI run Pi-hole on my home network. Its default blocklists has prevented several podcasts in my partner's Podcasts app from playing. I've had to explicitly allow a couple of distinct third-party trackers/analytics services for them to play. It was news to me that what I thought was a simple audio file also came with a bunch of analytics/tracking. I previously thought analytics were limited to simple events (play, pause, subscribe, finish, etc.) collected on Apple's side, but apparently not.
- shanecleveland 5y agoThat's interesting. Perhaps using a trusted third party podcast app would be preferable? Again, not sure. I certainly understand having some analytics around non-identifiable data, such as downloads, listens, etc.