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ZeroAds does one job: you give it a podcast’s RSS feed, it cuts the ads out of the audio, and it hands back a clean private feed for the app you already use. Every cut is logged with timestamps and a confidence score, per episode, per show.
Yes, but Apple doesn’t put them there. The shows do, inside the audio file. No setting turns them off. Cutting them out of the file does work, and Apple Podcasts will play the cleaned-up file. Spotify won’t.
Podcast ads are baked into the audio file, so removing them means processing the audio: transcribe, find the ad segments, cut them, re-serve the episode as a clean RSS feed your podcast app can read.
No. Spotify Premium removes ads from music, not from audio podcasts. The ads can still be removed, but only outside Spotify: a clean feed cuts them out of the audio before your app downloads the episode.
The podcast app that skips ads is the one you already use, once the ads are gone from the feed.
Yes, but not a browser one. Podcast ads sit inside the audio file, so uBlock Origin and Pi-hole have nothing to filter. A podcast adblock has to work on the audio itself. It finds the ad segments and cuts them out before your app downloads the episode.
Dynamic ad insertion (DAI) stitches fresh ads into a podcast’s audio every time you download an episode. You can still remove them. An ad blocker won’t do it, because the ads have to come out of the audio file itself.
If you are a regular podcast listener, you will spend about 40 hours a year listening to ads.
You signed up for Spotify Premium so the ads would stop. Music, yes. Podcasts, no. The fix takes about twenty minutes: move the shows to an app that accepts clean feeds, and keep Spotify for music. Until you do, it’s mattresses, meal kits, razors, every single episode.
Ad blockers, premium plans, new apps: none remove podcast ads, because the ads are inside the audio. Cutting them out of the file works, and a few services now do it. This guide compares them, ours included.
