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   @1iceloops123 Audiocast ads where the host says "I use Johnboy's Discount Backup Service and you should too!" are more of a problem than just reading off the advertiser's copy.
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     • Douglas A. Whitfield
     @musicman I don’t really believe that the show’s host always “just happens” to use an advertiser’s product. I mean, there are plenty of great data recovery solutions, plenty of cloud storage systems, plenty of backup systems. The advertiser’s product or service can be acceptable or even great without being the one that the host had chosen pre-sponsorship. That’s …
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     • Douglas A. Whitfield
     @musicman No specific examples. I haven’t been listening to podcasts at all recently. But over the years, there were shows on TwiT (and, yes, BSD Now) where I really wondered how every host all happened to choose $SPONSORING_VENDOR and gush lovingly about its products’ virtues.