This problem just showed up and now keeps happening, where the ad spots will start and while the ad is going the podcast will continue in the background without the ability to pause it or return the podcast video view. It's incrediblely annoying and makes it so I can't hear either because both the ad and podcast are playing over each other. Trying to pause just pauses the ad and the podcast will continue without the ability to see it, so if I want to watch a video podcast I have to wait for the ads to finish and then go back to the spot where the ads started. Even worse is if I go to far back it will count the ad spot again and start this whole annoying thing over again and I have to listen to more un-intelligible ads and skip backwards again. To make the farse even funnier, the podcast I'm trying to watch is one with video exclusively on Spotify. 

This happened on the windows 11 desktop app.