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Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content

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1525 points garyclarke27 | 2 comments | 18 May 20 07:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
1. emiliovesprini ◴[18 May 20 23:40 UTC] No.23229683[source]▶
Aren't podcasts essentially audio files over RSS?

Broke: culture war over general purpose computation.

Woke: culture war over general purpose content distribution.

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2. leshenka ◴[18 May 20 23:45 UTC] No.23229721[source]▶
There are now podcast distribution services where you can host your podcasts and there are several things wrong with them:

- as a consumer, I am expected to install every podcast application that hosts podcasts I like.

- they usually don't expose RSS feeds because god forbid someone uses a third-party, general-purpose, RSS-based podcast application.