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Overcast to skip stats services
Markus Winkler

Overcast to skip stats services

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  • Chartable
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    Use Chartable or Podsights to measure your traffic? Overcast will no longer appear in your data: Marco Arment, the developer, has decided to skip those redirects entirely, after they have, he claims, become increasingly affected by ad-blocking DNS servers. “Most download links that would otherwise redirect through these widely-blocked domains will now try to skip that hop and go to whatever’s after them”, he says on Overcast’s Slack channel. “I keep getting emails and tweets from people whose downloads are being blocked at the network level by these DNS blocklists, and they’ve gotten frequent enough that I need to do something.” Podtrac is currently unaffected by this action, though.

  • City Cast, the national network of daily news podcasts, has launched today with City Cast Chicago; launching next week, City Cast Denver. The idea of former Slate Editor-in-Chief David Plotz, the company plans more.

  • Audible

    Leigh Zarelli has joined Audible as Chief Product Officer. She joins from Marriott International.


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