Lol yes. This is shocked me when I first heard an ad on a podcast that wa local! I think it was on pocketcasts, I was like wtf!
Everyone blames the podcast app, and I thought this was the case too. But then as Laurien is saying it's the Podcaster! 🤯 and the ads get swapped out.
You are getting sold out by the content creators to whom you give your attention.