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Are you... not familiar with NPR? It's a non-profit public radio entity. It's some of the least-ad-ridden content available on the planet and a tremendous resource.

This is what I was thinking - I was trying to stretch my imagination to see how NPR would do this and couldn't.

NPR's own One app isn't a bloated ad-ridden pile of crap, why would they take PocketCasts in that direction?

Agree the fear of ad is unwarranted. Now isn’t NPR’s app pretty heavy on user tracking and is also used to A/B test contents and formats ?

I love NPR’s content, yet I am still worried about my favorite posdcast app getting aquired. I guess there will still be overcast if it goes down badly, but that would be a shame.

I believe you mean "... underwriter ridden pile of crap ..."

I hope not. I bought my first copy for Android back at version 3. When I moved to iOS, it was the very first app I bought. I'll buy it again if it keeps ads away.

You know it's a $4 app right?