For some background: I can’t stand ads, so currently I have YouTube Premium and watch some video podcasts there. I’ve been trying to get into podcasts that don’t have video but the ads are always a deal breaker for me.
So if I pay for an ad free podcast in Apple Podcasts for example, is there a way to automatically download new episodes of that? Ideally via CLI, but I’m open to GUI suggestions as well (running on KDE Plasma).
Not sure about Apple-mediated payments, but you can usually support the creator more directly and get an ad-free RSS feed that you can plug into the Podcasts app and it Just Works™. Usually ends up being a better deal for the creator, too.
They don’t want to pay the creator.