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Listening to podcasts on closed source, corporate media platforms like Spotify and YouTube are the worst things you can do for podcasting. Podcasting has always been an open ecosystem built on old school technologies and Spotify, iHeartMedia, and YouTube are trying to insert themselves in order to create an additional Chokepoint in the media ecosystem. Even worse, because podcasts are usually freely available it is a great way to get people who subscribe to streaming services to spend their time streaming something the service doesn’t have to pay per stream for, unlike music