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 I’ve noticed that I don’t want to zap podcasts who have sponsor spots in the middle of the show. 

I know it’s not fair or rational even - they need to make something for their work, but somehow it feels like betrayal.  They are getting around ad blocking and putting sponsor spots at the beginning because they know  you’ll just skip the first few minutes. This really sucks. But maybe I suck more for complaining about it 🤷‍♂️ 

V4v is clearly not there yet and they need the ad spots but I wish they kept them in the beginning so I could skip them 😂 

The worst is when the host pretends like it’s a good product by having used it a few times and then lying about it being the thing they use regularly. Why do this? Just say I tried it and it seems ok… 😂 and leave it at that. Don’t lie. 

Anyway… / end rant