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0 pointsbklaasen4y ago0 comments

> Note that, especially if you turn on blocking services marked as essential in the setup, you will need to unblock a lot of CDNs and tracking services for many apps to work including Spotify, your browser, etc. Of course you can also just whitelist apps completely, or temporarily turn all blocking off altogether. But by default it will block trackers, since that's kind of its point. This has the side effect of blocking virtually all advertisements.

Might be time to consider a different Podcatcher.

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account-54y ago

I'm using AttennaPod from FDroid store. Assuming that means it might be podcast specific.

lucgommans4y ago

Also using AntennaPod from F-Droid here: it gets its data from CDNs. The CDN is in a position to log data from a lot of people, that's why I think they are on the block list.

It depends on which podcasts you listen to which services you need to unblock I think. The 'essential' category is usually a good starting point but you might need more, especially for the search which iirc comes from Apple/iTunes.

You can also just whitelist AntennaPod completely of course, being an open source app from F-Droid that's relatively trustworthy.

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