hi all. i know that GB has gone through some changes recently with regards to podcast archiving, new advertisements, and so on. i assume that this is fandom's influence but i suppose there's no use in pointing fingers. i just just wanted to check what sorts of advertisements you've all been hearing. i know that the ads are geolocated and so everyone is hearing different ones, but let me tell you what i am hearing:
1) casino ads. i find these highly distasteful and morally dubious but not so much that i would necessarily cause a fuss about it. i would prefer not to have gambling advertised to me by a podcast i love but so be it.
2) right-wing propaganda ads (lol?). here is the real issue. the government of alberta are running astroturfed anti-trudeau ads that i guess are being determined to be relevant to me as a citizen of ontario. as an ardent lefty, i don't really have much affection for trudeau, but i definitely don't want to hear literal right-wing propaganda ads from the United Conservative Party, a very right-wing provincial party in alberta. for context, this would be equivalent to hearing ads from ron desantis or some MAGA shithead on the giant bombcast every week.
i realize that this is a service that GB gets paid for and that they don't get to choose the ads that everyone is hearing all over the world. but if it is possible to... exercise some sway over which ads get selected, i think that would be nice. maybe i am out to lunch here, but i get the sense that the average GB listener is not really that receptive to right-wing propaganda, and i don't think that the nice people working at GB would be psyched to learn that they were (implicitly) endorsing right-wing propaganda.
are you yanks getting similar ads to these or are you getting more anodyne stuff? what about people in other parts of the world? i know ads are a necessary evil but it would be nice if the ads weren't also additionally evil.
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