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I liked some podcasts a while ago, but the ads were killing me so I just couldn't bother anymore

• dredmorbius 4y ago
  I'll note that there's nothing that quite kills my appetite for listening to a podcast as the knowledge that there will be a slew of annoying, intrusive, poorly-contextualised, and abrupt advertising breaks within the segment. My list of strongly preferred podcasts slews strongly to those without any commercials. A patronage pitch by the creator is acceptable. This in particular hits numerous media-organisation and radio-adapted podcasts particularly hard, with NPR, BBC, CBC, Vox, and NYTimes being particularly notable for this. Academic-organisation podcasts avoid this very nearly completely, and are far more appealing simply on this basis. ("History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps" being probably the examplar of good content devoid of any advertising.)