You don't just skip over ads? My app lets me set a skip for the pre-roll ads automatically.

I actually feel a tiny bit guilty about that. The ads are why the podcasts exist. Too many might drive away listeners, but too few drives away podcasters. I'm kinda baffled that the economy of it works at all.

For a bunch of them I pay for the ad free version, though I'm curious about the economics of that. As someone with enough money to opt out, I'm exactly the person the advertisers want to reach.

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Flere-Imsaho 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I listen to podcasts on my morning and evening commute (in my car). I can skip forward 30 seconds, or back 10 seconds with a click of a button, so I'm baffled why everyone else isn't doing the same??? As I'm not going to buy the thing that is being advertised I don't feel guilty - it's not like anyone is losing out.

	▲	jfengel 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have more than once bought stuff specifically from the ads. I'm wearing some MeUndies socks, right now, and they're good. I really liked the hot sauce subscription I heard about on the ad. And because I use the code they know which podcasts brought me to them.

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Retric 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Companies target more than just people with the most money. Walmart and Rolex for example target different customers with different priorities.

So even if you completely lost the top 5% or even 20% of incomes, what remains is plenty valuable to many companies.