Comment by anigbrowl
6 hours ago
The difference is that I am not preventing anyone else from finding their content. I whitelist ads on sites that have good ad policies, like limiting ad size, labeling ads, and not allowing animated ads.
Advertisers only care about attention, if you don't impose editorial standards they'll contaminate your entire site.
In the tech space, using youtube as an example, tech youtubers, who are widely lauded, still have about 40-50% of users ad-blocking and <1% donating.
So thank you, but you are one of about 14 people on the internet who actually use a whitelist.
On air reads. Lift a finger for your ads. When I spent more time producing podcasts I categorically rejected (and discouraged my clients from doing) injected ads by 3rd parties. They scream “idgaf” and actual on air reads convert better anyway by huge margins in comparison.
Ublock origin et al can’t block those so there’s your solution. Don’t lazily monetize your content.
The actual answer is to move everything to an app and kill your API, so you control everything in a locked down environment.
This is a much bigger issue than just podcasts. It's every form of binary encoded data.