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TylerE on Feb 21, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts

To a point, but many podcaster players will run downloads through their own CDN

paulcole on Feb 22, 2019 | [–]

Can you name any that do this? Why would they? A podcast app should be basically free to run so why introduce the cost of downloading every podcast?

kasey_junk on Feb 22, 2019 | [–]

Geolocation at the cdn level is a common use case for the new class of ‘smart cdn’.

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