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224 Podcast Subscriber Metrics and When You'll Make Money From Your Podcast

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Is Your Podcast Ap Spying on You?

Some popular podcast ups are routing the user subscribed feeds and even some down loaded episodes through secret with secret and quot servers that act as man in the middle. This behavior is commonly called server side crawling, and almost all modern podcast aps are built this way to provide push notifications. Episode audio files themselves are down loaded directly to the ap, without going through intermediary servers. But the r s s feeds are fetched by my servers, and only their ges are sent to everyone's phones. I document this behavior publicly, and there is aurl that we will have in the shownots if you guys want to click through. It's overcast dot f m slash podcaster in fo under

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