@phoneboy It will be interesting to see what comes next, but assuming that noncommercial radio stations that do not carry conventional advertising will somehow insert advertising into the app seems somewhat counterintuitive. If they do, I have no doubt that someone will spot the opening in the market and write another app. Thus ever with capitalism.
As for collecting information on users, I can selectively turn off permissions if needed. I'm already a paid user of the app, with web access and a PocketCasts account that syncs everywhere, so they already know what I listen to and how often I listen. I realize this feeds into a larger conversation about what aren't they telling me and what are they doing with this information, but if I was that paranoid I'd shred my Starbucks card and never leave the house. Or I'd go live in a log cabin fifty miles outside of Fairbanks where there's no cell reception and build a camouflage net over the house to block the spy satellites.
Life is too damn short for that. YMMV.
// @JeremyCherfas @hazardwarning