https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/08/spotify-will-now-suspend-or-terminate-accounts-it-finds-are-using-ad-blockers/
In an email to users today, the streaming music and podcast platform said its new user guidelines
“mak[e] it clear that all types of ad blockers, bots and fraudulent
streaming activities are not permitted.” Accounts that use ad blockers
in Spotify face immediate suspension or termination under the new terms
of service, which go into effect on March 1.
The jig's (probably) up. 3 weeks notice.
Just move on.
How about you stop slowly breaking and removing old features of the service and then maybe you'll justify the revenue?
seen this one coming for a while now, they've been blocking certain features by integrating them into their ad-server, the first to go was the friends feed for example. Now if you try to listen to a song you haven't listened to on the PC program before, the song simply doesn't play until you stop blocking their ad-server.
what do you recommend moving on to?
Apple Music? Google Play?
Spotify is an amazingly reliable and full featured product. The cost of a subscription is not unreasonable for what you get. If you can't afford it, you should suck it up and deal with the ads.
The only feature I've noticed they cut is the pseudo social/chat part of the application, which was totally useless and very few people did anything with it. What stuff are you referring to?
I get people don't want ads on stuff, but it is kinda a give and take situation.
Spotify is pretty good, i used it a lot as a free user. I managed to get prem + hulu with my student account and prem spotify is even better.
If you use it for free support it by not blocking ads. I understand why they would term accounts for blocking ads, they have to pay for these licenses/royalties and bandwidth somehow. If it doesn't get the support it needs it will eventually suffer from quality issues or shut down all together.
just pay for premium, it's easily worth it
So using the hosts file will get me banned?
Or i'm still safe since i have premium
Good thing uBlock Origin is a content blocker and not an ad blocker.
Nevermind, the wording of the actual ToS:
circumventing or blocking advertisements in the Spotify Service, or creating or distributing tools designed to block advertisements in the Spotify Service;
Pretty bullshit ToS my right to not display crap I don't want to see is nothing they needs to care about.
Ads for me are a security issue and even safe website have been hit by infected ads.
I assume that since they run half their shit through their adserver you're probably not safe. if you can see your friends feed, can play artist radios, and can play songs that you've never played before while blocking ads you might be safe.
BET. I'm going to continue to adblock until they force me to stop. I'm not paying premium for something they consistently strip of features. Maybe if it was like back in the day when they had lyrics, music rooms, custom apps and the ability to listen with your friends. It's been around for 12 years and it doesn't even have an equalizer, let alone the ability to change skins.
You don't have a right to free media produced by others
If you don't like the terms of the free plan, pay for the premium plan
It isn't your right to use their service in violation of their TOS.
Spotify offers an extremely convenient service for free, and ads pay for the service if you're a free user. If you block the ads, they're justified in blocking you from the service.
This is actually directly targeted towards cracked .apk distributions of the Spotify client for Android that disable advertisements on non-Premium accounts. It likely will have no effect on desktop users.
You should really pay for Premium, anyway, it's totally worth it. What you absolutely should not do is spoof a .edu email account to bring the price down to $3 a month, because that would be really naughty of you.
I'm not blocking ads
I'm simply not requesting them
thanks and try again later
They're currently stripping out the radio entirely which was the best feature of the entire service, along with screwing up other discovery methods. Hell, for a while they were regularly taking the weekly discovery queue away but for now it seems to be staying at least.
Also, I do have premium actually. Family plan for myself, boyfriend, and a few others. And not dealing with ads will never be piracy.
iirc they've been targeting cracked apks for a while now but now they're doing a blanket ban.
FYI for whom this news concerns, you could export playlists as song URIs but not your library itself. There are tools to convert said playlists to other services like Deezer.
Just to nitpick, on both an abstract and technical level, you're never "requesting" ads, they simply arrive as part of the broader content you requested. Blocking ads isn't a failure to request content, it's an explicit request to not receive content.
Pandora is still great.
ive been a premium user for years but i obviously have ublock installed for other things
i dont really listen to spotify on web browser since the client runs so much better, am i safe?
If you block ads and still use Spotify for free you're kind of a piece of shit
They're not going to end a paid subscription because someone is blocking ads they're not trying to send. You're fine.
you're good
hey you never know with these people lol
thanks though
Legit question, but what even is the point/appeal of Spotify? I've always just had music stored locally and used a media player like VLC for it. Am I missing something?
second with this, I really don't see the appeal. Maybe idk how to use it or something
radios and automatically made playlists make finding new music very easy while mixing in familiar stuff as well. Before I used Spotify my music library got kinda stagnant as I didn't want to buy music and get it transferred to my phone, iPad etc. Now I just stream everything, old and new
Mainly convenience and something to listen on my phone with limited storage space. I have to admit I found new music there too.
It's a shame Spotify's catalog is so limited since I have to end up using [REDACTED]* if I wanted to listen to a certain album/artist not on the service.
*no pun intended
Convenience and discovery for me. I don't really own any music apart from some Humble Bundle OSTs and i'm fine with it. I mostly just stream on both laptop and phone since i don't really have a datacap on the phone. Having the same playlists availible everywhere is really nice.
It might just be Sweden or my social circle but i don't really know anyone who doesn't use Spotify here. It's the norm to have shared playlists for stuff like roadtrips, parties etc.
It might be because data costs a shit ton here that it's not as useful to me maybe. idk
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