any idea how to block podcasts? .

[shawnleong]

any idea how can we block podcasts that we don't want to hear? Like how we block certain artists. I am intending to curb my"addiction" to certain podcasts by permanently blocking them. Thanks!

[shawnleong]

Hey @gcv_7nte-f5qt, @SirPrize4U and @timbrax

Thanks for searching for the answer you need here.

As @Ver mentioned currently there isn't an option to block podcasts from playing. However these ideas request similar features:

• [All Platforms][Podcasts] Option to disable or hide podcasts entirely

• [All Platforms] Customize Start Screen 

• [All Platforms] Block / disallow suggestions for certain content

Consider adding your support there or posting a new idea about what you'd like to see in the app.

Hope this info is useful. The Community is here if you have any questions.

[20_Ton_Squirrel]

Me, too!  I never listen to podcasts but there's the Joe Rogan Experience clogging up my view.  Not interested.  It is annoying, bordering on offensive.

[lamiller44]

The proposed solution doesn't really help.  I clicked on a podcast one time, over a year ago, and within about 60 seconds I realized it was something that I never want to hear...at all.  But now it continues to surface near the top of the list of "Your shows".  It takes up space (and pisses me off every time I have to see it).  It'd be great if I could somehow indicate that I don't want to see it.

[adam1021]

The only solution is to uninstall and never install again. Forcing pods into my stream in unacceptable. Thank you for saying that getting rid of spotifuggle is the only and one way. Apple music is the only solution. 

[ln4]

"Currently the only way to stop seeing a podcast in your Library is to Unfollow it."

This is not true as of now. It keeps showing random garbage recommendations that I cannot get rid of.

[xhulaGenevi]

It’s unfortunate that Spotify removed the “I don’t like this content” or “don’t show this artist again.” Because it obligates everyone to your idea of a homepage. IT LITERALLY MAKES ME CLOSE THE APP COMPLETELY AND USE SOUNDCLOUD out of pure annoyance at Spotify’s decisions. Why is there a forum in the first place? To consider everyone’s idea is a completely different concept than the concept of ignoring your users. And that is exactly what Spotify is known for. Hooray, you’re known for failing at the basic idea of being user-friendly. 

This is a loaded message, yes, but it’s not because of the Emma Chamberlain podcast that persists to appear every time I open the app even if I clear my cache — it’s because I search for an answer of meeting my music and listening needs only to find that thousands have voiced the same thing with no change from SPOTIFY, since 2021 AT LEAST. 

Please listen to YOUR LISTENERS. Incorporate ANY button that removes a particular podcast from appearing. It’s obvious how, you (the Meta company of Spotify), want to spread awareness about podcasts and encourage engagement, but this is a ridiculous overlooking and, frankly, it’s pushing away users like me. 

Chamberlain does not need to crowd my homepage -_-

[xhulaGenevi]

This is coming from a 23-year-old, I know marketing and I know capitalism. I’m literally in Spotify’s target audience. This is my statement and I wish you wouldn’t ignore it or anyone else’s opinion on this matter because podcasts DO provide insight and knowledge and humor, but you’re directly omitting any sense of agency on this app, mobile or desktop version. 

Spotify: “you have to listen to the podcast a little in order to give it a bad rating” “you have to follow the podcast first in order to unfollow it” “you have to unwillingly give homepage space to multiple podcast episodes in a horizontal scrolling tab which are of no relevance to you and could even be strongly disliked by you” “you have to see 6 covers of Emma Chamberlain facing a handheld mirror with the youth-oriented catchphrase slogan ‘anything goes’ when you know Chamberlain is a phony influencer who picks and chooses how to portray herself to youth.” 

So Spotify’s choice to push podcasts onto users includes completely removing the option to opt out? Is it so hard to believe that human beings have preferences? No, Spotify is monetizing the podcasts so of course they wouldn’t incorporate ANY user-friendly tactics, at all. Congratulations Spotify, you’re banking on the success of Spotify Wrapped (a visual concept stolen from a female African-American intern in highschool in the 2010s) and downgrading the rest of the app. 

I even tried finding a way to block a certain podcast on a laptop with no success because SPOTIFY REMOVED the buttons (which used to be there) allowing for any sort of AGENCY in our listening experience. I actually like podcasts and grew interest in them during 2019 and 2020, but the sponsored and non-sponsored recommendations have slowly stopped me from listening to any podcast altogether…. Because it is so. frustrating. 

What if a podcast content creator was a known offender or an individual’s hypothetical nightmare?? Spotify has zero accountability. And setting the consideration status of this issue to Not Right Now just deepens the figurative pain of helpless conforming. Unless your goal was to slowly say goodbye to people who are done with this **bleep**. 

[Lindsay4000]

Hi. I want to block certain podcasts that I do NOT follow - all the advice to stop hearing them is unfollow which isn’t helpful. I listen to podcasts a lot in the car, one finishes and it clicks over to something Spotify has decided I want to listen to that I have never chosen myself and definitely don’t follow. Recently this has been really gruesome true crime. As I’m driving I either need to just click off or listen to stuff that I find really challenging, and the kids hear it in the back. Surely there needs to be a way to stop going from family friendly listening to blood and gore?!?

[randName1]

The home screen is filled with things I don't want to see, anything English, anything brain dead like Joe Rogan, yet I get it shoved down my throat

Let us block podcasts just like we can with music

[gt_l1d-59dezu]

they won't let you because it is a subtle gaslight on you. algorythmic subliminal stuff. like how they want me to see chris chan all the time. can't block it.