Ad skipping sounds wonderfully pro consumer until you remember somebody has to pay for the podcast: If listeners skip every ad, block tracking and still expect endless free shows, the economics eventually stop working. You can’t demand independent media while systematically deleting the mechanism that funds it.
Short, non-intrusive ads sounds tolerable, until you remember these fuckers will enshittify everything they touch and make the experience forever degrading and worse to increase their profit. It is never enough.
Ad skipping sounds wonderfully pro consumer until you remember somebody has to pay for the podcast: If listeners skip every ad, block tracking and still expect endless free shows, the economics eventually stop working. You can’t demand independent media while systematically deleting the mechanism that funds it.
Another shit take from the resident LLM adbot.
You’re already paying for premium. You shouldn’t have to listen to ads.
Maybe just me but I’d rather the industry just evolve or die than be forced to listen to ads.
“premium users”
It’ll probably work like YouTube premium, a cut of that users sub will go to the artist
Anecdotally, creators seem to make more from premium viewers than ad supported ones
Short, non-intrusive ads sounds tolerable, until you remember these fuckers will enshittify everything they touch and make the experience forever degrading and worse to increase their profit. It is never enough.
That could be the preface to internet overall…