If you want to block podcast ads at the network level — meaning across every device on your home Wi-Fi, without installing anything per-device — Pi-hole and AdGuard Home are the two big open-source op...
Pocket Casts is one of the most-loved third-party podcast players around. Great queue management, cross-device sync, brilliant playback controls. But if you've searched for "how to block ads ...
If you've decided you want to cut podcast ads on your iPhone, two names come up first in 2026. Filtr, the new system-wide content filter app from the developer behind Wipr. And AdGuard, the long-r...
For a long time, using an ad blocker felt like one of those small ethical questions you don't really want to answer. The publisher loses revenue. The site you wanted to read got served. You knew t...
Apple Podcasts is the most-used podcast app in the United States. It is also one of the worst for ads. There's no built-in ad blocker, episode ads are dynamically inserted into nearly every major ...
Podcast ads in 2026 are longer, more numerous, and harder to skip than they were three years ago. This is the complete guide to blocking podcast ads — every path that actually works, every path that d...
YouTube has become one of the biggest podcast platforms in the world. Lots of shows now publish a video version of every episode to YouTube as their primary distribution. That's good for the shows...
"Ad-free" can mean a few different things. Some shows run zero ads at all because they're funded by public-broadcasting underwriting or listener donations. Some run a few short ads on th...
Spotify Premium is famous for one thing: no ads. Spotify also has the biggest podcast catalogue of any music app. So it's easy to assume that paying for Premium means ad-free podcasts too. It does...