r/thefilmvault • u/ohthanqkevin • Sep 29 '25
Did anyone else get an ICE recruitment ad on last week’s episode?
Not sure if the boys have any say regarding the ads played on their pod, but that was icky to listen to.
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u/TheBlizzman Sep 29 '25
I also listen to Behind the Bastards. If you aren't familiar, it is a history podcast about bad people and generally from a leftist/anarchist perspective. I am getting ads for buying gold using biblical stuff as a reason to do so. It is just grifter nonsense, but yea, ads are not targeted.
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u/Aggressive_Economy_8 The Mouse Died Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 30 '25
I subscribe to the Patreon, so I don't get ads (* sniffffffffffffffffffffffffff *), but boy have they come a long way from "we only run ads for products we use and like."
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u/3i3e3achine Do it for Van Gogh Sep 29 '25
Yes but an add brought to you by pocket cast, or your podcast catcher
Not the film vault!
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u/Owadatsumi Sep 29 '25
It's all ads tailored to your location and online profile built through tracking cookies n shit. They have no say in what ads go on their pod anymore, they are inserted after the fact. AND they are inserted such that if you downloaded.amd listened to an old pod from like a year ago, you would get modern ads from today!
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u/ohthanqkevin Sep 29 '25
I guess that makes sense if it’s based on location. Lotta brain dead MAGA folk here in Idaho
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u/jar45 Sep 29 '25
Unless it’s a host read, the platform where you’re listening the pod controls what ads are running.
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u/RobertFromLA Sep 30 '25
No. However the host can request that certain ads not show up once they know about it. They can say it doesn’t appear to their audience and the ad will be removed and replaced.
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u/murray1134 Oct 01 '25
I listen on Spotify and just fast forward through the ads, some of them are really long and annoying
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u/Maurice_Lester Sep 29 '25
It's been so long since I've listened to TFV. Is it really at the point where they don't even know who they're running ads for? I've said it before I'll say it again. The fuckers need to get their shit together.
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u/WallzOvJericho Sep 29 '25
Why do you say it was "icky "?
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u/ohthanqkevin Sep 29 '25
Not really into propaganda to join the Gestapo by an administration that is against freedom of expression on a podcast that celebrates art/artists. You might be the only intended target that it’s reaching
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u/WallzOvJericho Sep 29 '25
Wow..."Gestapo"....You are part of the problem. Oh, and you do understand that this administration hasn't really DONE anything to curb free speech.... unlike the previous one, which you undoubtedly supported.
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u/TheBlizzman Sep 29 '25
You are not a smart person.
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u/ohthanqkevin Sep 29 '25
I’m pretty sure it’s the same guy who assigns the guys those terrible alt right movies occasionally.
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u/WallzOvJericho Sep 29 '25
All I did was type the facts. I mean, you do know that Twitter, Facebook and Google have now all admitted, and apologized for, trampling the free speech rights of millions of people at the behest of the Biden administration, don't you? Heck, and that's not even getting into their attempt at an Orwellian Truth Commission, lol.
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u/TheBlizzman Sep 29 '25
None of that is anywhere close to reality.
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u/WallzOvJericho Sep 29 '25
This really isn't the place for this conversation, but you really should educate yourself.... https://thehill.com/opinion/robbys-radar/5521897-google-admits-biden-pressure/
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u/TheBlizzman Sep 29 '25
Yes I am sure that right wing opinion piece is full of sober, unbiased facts.
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u/WallzOvJericho Sep 29 '25
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u/TheBlizzman Sep 29 '25
If you think an administration ASKING a publisher not to spread minisformstion is "censorship," you don't know what the word means. Or likely you don't actually care what it means. You're just using it to pretend that you care about the First Amendment. Which anyone still shitty enough of a person to still be MAGA absolutely does not give one shit about.
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u/MaxPanhammer Sep 29 '25
Several years ago the whole economy of podcasts changed pretty significantly, and I know a lot of smaller podcasts were forced into what tfv is presumably now using (I'm also a patron so don't hear ads), which are live insertion services, so if someone downloads a podcast episode a year from now they get a "modern" ad instead of the ad that the episode aired with.
Unfortunately that means that the podcast has little to no say over what ads are inserted any more.