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

  • baatliwala@lemmy.worldOP
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    11 hours ago

    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.

    • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
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      4 hours ago

      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.