[Feature Request] Adblock for non-YT podcasts #790
Description
Hi,
First of all, thanks for this great open-source self-hosted software, I'm looking forward to seeing the mobile apps released!
This may be a long shot, but I would love it if you could try implementing some sort of ad blocking feature for non-YouTube podcasts. I saw #618 and #532 which shows that you don't seem to be fundamentally opposed to the concept of adblocking.
Please correct me if you already have this implemented or explored the idea and rejected it already. I haven't found anything after a quick search.
I think there could be 2 approaches on how to implement this:
- Similar to sponsorblock in that it's crowdsourced and shared.
- Using local AI to process episodes on the server and detect / remove ads automatically.
For 2. I found the following projects and resources interesting to give an idea (not an endorsement of these projects):
https://github.com/podly-pure-podcasts/podly_pure_podcasts
https://github.com/hemant6488/podcast-server
https://github.com/xenova/sponsorblock-ml
https://github.com/andrewzlee/NeuralBlock
What would also be interesting is how this process syncs up to less powerful clients. Do the episodes get cut on the server and then downloaded by the clients? Do the episodes get a list of timestamps to skip and that gets synced to the clients?