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Updated Pocket Casts to the latest beta (7.97-rc-1) and got these stupid fucking banner ads on top

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[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 48 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I switched to Antenna Pod as soon as I realized that Pocket Cast is owned by Automattic, never looked back.

[–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

I too went from Pocket Cast to Antenna Pod. Never looked back.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

What's wrong with Automattic? I don't know them at all.

Got a suggestion for an app that works on Android in my car? (Not Android Auto, but it's Android based so can run Android apps. It's a Volvo.)

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Automattic is owned by Matt Mullenweg, which is a fucking bigot. See his attacks on WP Engine

Edit: also see https://wpvswpe.report/

[–] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Maybe try podcast addict, been using it for years and it's just got constant development. I donated to them because I hate subscriptions and I've gotten a lot of value from it.

Free version only has ads on the search page as far as I can tell, and it's just a couple recommended casts.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Thank you for the suggestion! I looked at it but I think I might be a bit picky β€” I kinda didn't like the design. πŸ˜… Pocket Casts is just πŸ˜—πŸ‘Œ

[–] blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You know, it is not really a free version if they give you ads. Why not donate to foss? AntennaPod is really great.

Edit: so after that I hyped myself up a bit to donate to AntennaPod myself and their donation page told me, they have enough money to develop the app and they would like people to help in other ways or maybe to donate to their favourite podcast. 🀷

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nothing big is wrong with them, the drama got blown way out of proportion to a frankly insane degree.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

What drama though?

[–] antler@feddit.online 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Antenna Pod runs on Android. Not sure about on your Volvo specifically though.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I'm mainly interested in an app that can sync between devices. Non-commercial apps rarely do this. 😞

[–] surjomukhi@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 days ago

+1 for antennapod

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 2 points 3 days ago

Thanks for the recommendation. I checked it out and it's exactly what I've been looking for.

[–] calamitycastle@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Stopped using it years ago when they redesigned it completely. I remember people HATED it, but they really did make it worse.

I use Podcast Addict instead which isn't perfect but looks like it has more features that I use than Antenna Pod

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago

I don't even remember what they did when I bailed. Some redesign thing close to a decade ago. I've been using Podcast Republic ever since as it resembles what Pocket Cast was like before they screwed it up.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

I paid for Pocket Casts years ago. Then shortly after, they announced it was going to be free. I think I got a refund. Don't remember.

I can't say I'm surprised at this decision to stuff it with ads. Gotta pay for development somehow, and unfortunately they took the easy route, i.e. data collection and ads.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i still have a lifetime plus account from when i originally paid for the web version in beta otherwise i'd have moved on to audiobookshelf

[–] RxBrad@infosec.pub 7 points 3 days ago

I really like Audiobookshelf for audiobooks.

But it breaks my brain that it still hasn't implemented some sort of automatic queueing of new podcast episodes. Every time you finish a podcast episode, you need to manually go into the app and find the next episode to play. Not ideal for when you're driving...

[–] florge@feddit.uk 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This day was always going to come, I've got them as well. Maybe it's time to look at something like PinePods, since it was only the cross device syncing keeping me using pocket casts.

[–] bezmuth@scribe.disroot.org 14 points 3 days ago

Antennapod is great and also has syncing (through gpodder.net)

[–] skoberlink@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I would like to switch to another app, preferably FOSS, but I haven't found another decent one that has the filters feature from PocketCasts. This is the feature that lets you apply a preset filter to the total list of episodes. I use it to auto-build a queue of just certain podcasts, instead of all of my subscriptions.

Any chance someone has seen that feature elsewhere?

[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Pocket Casts client is actually open source, server is not AFAIK.

I am very curious if they are going to implement something like Google Ads in the future because I don't recall any open source app ever having third party ads. Right now there is only a banner ad to subscribe to Premium but on clicking the X button there is an option to "report ad" so surely they are getting third party ads? I have seen locked down features with premium version having full features, but never ads really. Maybe the MPL license they have chosen is very lenient in that way.

If someone forks the app and creates a fully FOSS version I will be fine using that.

OMG thank you for that knowledge! I've been putting off building a podcast server for years because I couldn't be arsed learning some front end framework.

[–] xylol@leminal.space 4 points 3 days ago

Podcast addict has a ton of filters I remember using.

I set it up so a news podcast would be like tier one so each morning it played first then after it was over it would move down to what was in progress in tier two in the queue then when those finished it'd go down the list by tier

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is this happening even for their premium subscribers?

[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Premium now also has "No banner ads" as a feature so no

[–] Steve@communick.news 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's an ad to upgrade, so I doubt it