So I’ve run my own show for just about ten years now. We’ve never had ads or sponsorships of any kind other than a Patreon plug at the very end.
When I go out into the world and listen to other podcasts I’m perpetually annoyed at the lengthy, frequent ad-breaks. I don’t mind being reminded to engage or click on their link or go to a show’s Ko-Fi page, but a two minute dollar shave club or AG1 ad is just too much. And, honestly, the amount of advertising dollars some shows take makes me question their integrity just a bit. I know it might be a bit old-fashioned to think that, but I can’t help it.
What are you favorite sponsorship-free, ad-free podcasts?
Interesting! You extract the ID from the link (e.g. the
1258545975from https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/citations-needed/id1258545975) and then:$ curl -s 'https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1258545975' | jq -r '.results.[0].feedUrl' https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/rss $Oh wow I didn’t realize it was so simple. I couple just slap that into a bash script and save the effort of going through a website…maybe even use it for bulk processing when I get lots of recommendations.
#!/bin/sh # Get the original RSS feed URL from an Apple Podcast show URL. podcast="$1" id=$(echo "$podcast" | awk '{sub(/^.*\/id/, ""); print}') curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=%24id" | jq -r '.results.[0].feedUrl'There seems to be a bug in Lemmy that messes up the script’s rendering a little, but you’ll figure it out.