Post AwrtoKs5ML0qpAxwe0 by wikkit@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AwrtoJkbWfQzLgSSLQ by wikkit@mastodon.social
       2025-08-05T17:49:23Z
       
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       If you live in the US and listen to podcasts, you really should get a VPN on your phone and set it basically anywhere else.Podcasts that have ads and are using one of the big podcast distributors, and podcasts from professional media companies, all localize their ads. Which changes not only what the ads are, but massively changes the total ad load. Sometimes I VPN into the US and if I accidentally leave it on, the quantity of ads on podcasts makes them close to not worth listening to.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwrtoKs5ML0qpAxwe0 by wikkit@mastodon.social
       2025-08-05T17:57:30Z
       
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       For example, por ejemplo, the latest episode of the Bloomberg podcast “Odd Lots” is 26:01 if downloaded from Spain. I deleted it, VPN’d into the US and downloaded it again, and now it’s 28:16.Two minutes and fifteen seconds of extra ads for being in the US.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwrtoLuxT8uA4NJklE by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-08-05T18:49:30Z
       
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       @wikkit That seems like a metaphor for something.