
Legacy paid users of the popular podcast app Pocket Casts are being shown ads and directed to pay a subscription of $40 a year in order to remove them. This violates an agreement which promised them ad-free usage for life under what was initially branded Pocket Casts Lifetime and later rebranded to Pocket Casts Champion …
Pocket Casts originally started as a one-time purchase app costing around $10. It later switched to a freemium model in which free users were shown ads while…

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