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Today, the team behind Pocket Casts, the podcast app that I have used as my main podcast-listening tool for a decade, announced that they are moving their web player and cross-platform syncing features from behind a paywall. Meaning that listeners can now check out any show in their catalog directly in the user-friendly, browser version of the popular app without even needing an account. For podcasters, this means you will now have a public listing for your show that can work for anyone, regardless of what device they're using. In their announcement post , the Pocket Casts folks say, "We’re not just making our Web Player open, we’re making a statement. Podcasting is one of the last open corners of the internet, and we’re here to keep it that way." This is a fantastic announcement, and I applaud them for this decision. In the summer of last year, Apple Podcasts made a similar move , opening up a fully functioning browser version of their popular podcast platform that even ...