How Do I Stop iTunes Downloading Podcasts?!

Situation: I use the iOS Podcasts app, from Apple. I have done so for a while now, no problem; keeps my podcasts up to date and deletes old ones.
Since the recent update to iTunes (11.1.3 is installed on my Mac), it now keeps itself in sync with podcasts.
I do not want this. I do not listen to podcasts on my Mac, and I don't want it to waste time/resources/electrons/bandwidth downloading podcasts. However, I could forgive that problem except for one crucial thing: it gets it wrong.
All. The. Time.
My podcasts are now being set as unread, old podcasts are being downloading on my iPhone, it's a crazy situation where sync is not working right. I've tried to delete podcasts on my Mac (they come back). I've unsubscribed from them and deleted them (they come back).
They're never effected on my iPhone, except, of course, that they're incorrectly updated with played information - old podcasts are resurrected from the dead, last played positions are wrong, and so on, despite never, ever, ever using iTunes to play a podcast.
How, please, anyone, can I stop iTunes from being "helpful?" This is superbly broken behaviour. It's not ideal if it downloads podcasts on my Mac, but the deal breaker is when it destroys all the positions and last listened and undeletes episodes I've deleted. That's kind of: what's the point of the iOS app if it fails the fundamental task of ... keeping your podcasts correctly up to date?
Help.

In the Podcasts window click settings near the bottom left. Change to, for example, download most recent instead of download all.
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