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This Christmas, I chose violence against some of my favorite podcasters! 🧡 I vibe-code a podcast player that automatically skips ads. But before podcasters come for me attacking their revenue stream, there's something for you too at the end! Podcasting 2.0 already supports chapters, which are just time codes. So I adapted that functionality to just add time codes for ads. Not exactly rocket surgery! 🚀👨‍⚕️ Skipping intro/ads in the recent & episode. But where it could get interesting for nostr are the incentives. The start/stop time codes of the ads needs to be sourced from somewhere. That data could be crowdsourced from nostr users, who would earn zaps when an ad they tagged got skipped. The podcast producers could even provide their own time code tags so they get the zaps. Cutting noise & getting to the signal with & Haven't spent a ton of time on this, but I'd imagine listeners would probably pull the data from a paid nostr relay so their player could look up the GUID for each episode to get the ad time codes. And the player would notify the relay when an ad got skipped and by which npub and who's npub tagged the timecodes. Stealing food off table, sorry bro! But... Where it could get interesting for podcast creators is that the ads that are baked into your mp3 get stale over time, or they are just totally irrelevent to a global audience. You're leaving money on the table. With these tagged time codes you could have dynamic ads that are localized for people that listen using an ad-block compatible player that hasn't paid for the ad-blocking. They still get ads, but more relevant ads. I blame/thank and for bragging about their vibe-coding productivity! Disclaimer: I am not a podcaster (or developer) and have little insight into the inner workings of the biz model of the industry. I just wanted to try out Claud with and scratch an itch of an idea. Simple proof of concept code as a fork of Podverse: https://github.com/statusquont/podverse-web-adblock

What does nostr think about Phreeli? Phone service that only requires a zip code to sign up? https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-with-nothing-but-a-zip-code/