drea – podcast ad blocker

Show HN: I made the first free ad blocker for podcasts

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Always been annoyed by podcast ads. Searched and found a few apps that can detect and skip them, but they were all paid. So I made a free one. To my knowledge this is the first podcast app with free ad block. iOS (26+) only for now. If the app becomes popular I'll def think of doing an Android version as well.The app doesn't require a user account. I may open-source it at some point; still thinking about it. If anyone's suspicious about how it's able to be free, i.e. doesn't it cost money to run, are you selling my data (I'm not) etc. I'm happy to explain in the comments.From a technical perspective, the innovation here is ad detection despite dynamic/programmatic ads, which is the norm in m

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Website: drea.fm