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1 year agoThe fact that they chose not to tie 3rd party app access that avoided ads to premium subscription accounts tells me that it’s not about the lost money from ads, it’s about the telemetry they’re getting from the official app premium or not which is disgusting to me
They haven’t been associated for awhile, the company owning HowStuffWorks spun off the podcasting division in 2017 before selling it to iHeartMedia in 2018 https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/iheartmedia-stuff-media-howstuffworks-podcast-acquisition-1202939938/