The New York Times will now charge for past episodes of its popular podcasts

They&#x27;ll be cutting off a significant discovery source, though. That&#x27;s how I subscribe to most of my podcasts -- somebody links to a good episode and I like it so much I subscribe.<p>IMO they&#x27;re probably better off with the exact opposite approach -- make all the episodes but the latest one free, and put the latest one behind a firewall so people who don&#x27;t pay are a week behind.<p>That&#x27;s what almost all of the Patreon-funded creators do.

It doesn&#x27;t say anything about whether they&#x27;ll remove the ads from the podcasts though.<p>I don&#x27;t really mind paying for the podcasts, but it&#x27;s going to piss me off if I still have to mash the 15s-forward button every fifteen minutes.

If you like a podcast enough to go through back catalogue, probably worth throwing them a monthly fee every once in a while to grab everything.<p>That said, are there any communities out there that diligently archives podcasts? Seems like pretty effort trivial considering rss+size. I was hoping more people was going to use PLEX podcast for this, but it was bad, and got axed.

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Pretty opposite to the traditional approach of putting latest podcasts behind a paywall as &quot;preview episodes&quot;.

No issue here, I don’t find that I go back too far anyway on their podcast. Currently have a subscription so also doesn’t impact me. I’ve always wondered if these podcasts ever make that much money, I for one never click on ads on websites nor would I hear an ad during a podcast and look into that product.

Squeezy