Spotify owns megaphone. Megaphone embeds the ads in podcasts. It’s sort of not in their interest to offer this feature. However, YouTube has this feature already. I’d guess they are mostly trying to stay competitive?

Seems like a great way to get rear ended by a Tesla autopilot driver.

It’s more about the misalignment than the poor security. The guy wanted something simple and the agent broke the law fulfilling the request. How long until somebody tells a very capable agent “make money” with no further context? Cue scamming old people, fraud, hacking.