youre really overblowing how much data streaming music uses lol
I'm gonna be real honest here. I only turn of adblockers on sites that don't abuse the fuck out of their content to ad ratio and don't use shady sources. All these fake "download" ads that lure children and the elderly can fuck a rusty knife. Worst offenders that say you have "20 virus on you're battery!!!1" and flashes your phone and vibrates or hijacks the page entirely. One time I disabled adblocker on a site that tried to guilt me as making the devs homeless immediately redirected me to a fake virus warning. My grandparents also install a boatload of apps on their phones and one has the audacity to put a fake "Oop! All files lost?" ad that tries to make them install some spyware.
So I don't have to buy or '>buying music' and then keep track of it all, organize it, find new music when it comes out, transfer it to any new device I have...
Like music costs $10 an album. I pay $10, and... I get those ten songs. I pay Spotify $10 every month ($5, with my student discount)? I get all the music. It's incredibly rare to find a song that's not on Spotify.
It's the same reason people buy games on Steam instead of physical CDs: someone came up with a medium more convenient than piracy. And in this case, cheaper.
I honestly can't imagine someone still keeping track of all their stored music, unless they were an audiophile but that's a niche market compared to someone saying "I just wanna listen to Fleetwood Mac."
I'm guessing this only effects web browser users? Being a premium app user I'm not even the slightest worried that I block ads on literally every website I visit.
Am I screwed if I use blokada on my phone?
I've spent $10 a month for over 6 years. Never once regretted it
This doesn't seem too bad
i always just brushed it off because they kept asking your credit card info upfront before they let you use it
You people realize this is referring to audio ads which play in the Spotify client and aren't fucking tracking javascript display ads right
Sadly with most forms of web adverts there is a non-zero chance that they could have something malicious in them. So I can't blame anyone for blocking adverts.
Again,
The way they worded the ToS come across that ad-blocking period is banned.
Going back to limewire to download metallica.exe
Then actually pay for the service and you'll get it ad-free. If you refuse to pay directly, and refuse to pay indirectly via ads, it's perfectly reasonable for them to tell you to get bent.
Anyone complaining about this clearly is coming across super self entitled, as you're essentially claiming you want a ton of free music without any ads or less features. Just pay if you want to avoid it.
Point being - you are using a free service, they have every right to do what they want with it.
My biggest complaint about Spotify ads is sometimes you'll get the same ones over and over and over.
Stop trying to sell me penis pills, Snoop Dogg.
He's just worried about your sex life, dog.
There is no ads beside radio ads, thats the point. The ads are an extremely watered down version of car radio ads, instead of a 10 minute ad block, its 1 ad or 2 short ads and you're back to the music.
Begs the question how you block that without serious jiggery pokery.
I don't know how Spotify's ads work internally so this is probably a massive oversimplification but you could probably block the servers that the ads come from.
Well yeah, but the person I was replying to was speaking in general terms. I'm not advocating for blocking ads on Spotify and I personally don't use it anyway.
you underestimate how much data costs here
Ignorance is bliss as they say. My phone plan has 2Gb of data per month. You were saying?
pandora, amazon music, apple music, google music, anyone else in the giant ecosystem
I love spotify. Biggest downfall is how some albums get removed and you don't even have the option to listen to it offline.
If you're not going to pay 12 bucks a month and want to pirate you better be living pay check to paycheck.
honestly this is the camp where I always imagined the "piracy isn't stealing" crowd would end up
It doesn't cost much at all, I pay 45$ for 4gb which is close to 40 hours of streaming per month. And I'm with one of the most expensive company in Canada.
Buying spotify lets you download all of the high quality versions of all the songs you want to your phone or whatever, so data isn't even a good argument.
The argument wouldn't even exist if spotify didn't even HAVE a free feature. They could make it subscription only. It's a service they provide to you, and you pay for it in audio ads.
my 320kbps copy of Dark Side of the Moon totals just about 100MB in size - the album lasts ~45 minutes
if we assume that rate is roughly average - 100 megabytes per 45 minutes of music streaming, you'd get 27 hours of streaming on Verizon's $35 2GB data plan - barely over an hour a day of music, barring literally any other data access
there are, of course, better value plans, and even plans that won't count music streaming against your data caps. but generally speaking, those data plans will reduce the quality of the files you're streaming (more than likely down to 192kbps or worse, 480p for video, etc.)
also, those ads that you'll be streaming take up teensy bits of data too - every byte counts on limited data plans
Instead of using assumptions based on your own collection of music, use real data
Normal quality- approximately 96 kbps
High quality- approximately 160 kpbs
Extreme quality- approximately 302 kpbs
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