What if a paid account is using an ad blocker? Does the account holder get banned then?
Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
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Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
#852Good. Spotify has a pretty cheap paid option that removes all of that. To those who justify wanting the paid service for nothing by saying Spotify won't "take responsibility" or "assume liability" for their ads or those ads "might deliver malware" or are "intrusive" as a weak rationalization, you present a false dichotomy. There are at least three options: 1. Pay for the service 2. Suffer through the ads 3. Don't use…
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Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
#853Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ads and Tracking are two different things. Just because you don't see ads related to the tracked data in spotify does not mean that information is not used by the third party elsewhere. If pay spotify and you listen to metallica, you might not get ads on spotify, but you might get a link to Metallica merchandise on another website.
The overwhelming bulk of Spotify's revenue comes from paying customers, not advertisers. And for those who are too cheap to simply subscribe, the majority of "ads" are pleas to subscribe (because selling advertising is not the business they want to be in). The GP's claims are nonsense, discounted by the most cursory investigation. Trotting out some tired rhetoric about advertisers being the real customer to explain a…
I am a paying customer for multiple streaming service. I pay more for ad-free experience on Hulu.
My problem is not with Ads, my problem is with Tracking, which is not the same. That is what I was saying, not endorsing ad blockers.
Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
#854Good. Spotify has a pretty cheap paid option that removes all of that. To those who justify wanting the paid service for nothing by saying Spotify won't "take responsibility" or "assume liability" for their ads or those ads "might deliver malware" or are "intrusive" as a weak rationalization, you present a false dichotomy. There are at least three options: 1. Pay for the service 2. Suffer through the ads 3. Don't use…
>Good. >Spotify has a pretty cheap paid option that removes all of that. Five dollars a month for the rest of my life is not "cheap". Frugal people look at the total cost of a loan, not just the monthly payment.
> Five dollars a month for the rest of my life is not "cheap".
It's not five dollars a month for the rest of your life though. It's five dollars a month for as long as you want to listen to music on Spotify without ads...
> Frugal people look at the total cost of a loan, not just the monthly payment.
It's not a loan.
Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
#855Good. Spotify has a pretty cheap paid option that removes all of that. To those who justify wanting the paid service for nothing by saying Spotify won't "take responsibility" or "assume liability" for their ads or those ads "might deliver malware" or are "intrusive" as a weak rationalization, you present a false dichotomy. There are at least three options: 1. Pay for the service 2. Suffer through the ads 3. Don't use…
4. I don't want to pay for the data they are collecting, now if there was a paid option for that...
There is - it's called not using Spotify.
Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
#856Using an ad-blocker to listen to Spotify for free because you "don't believe in their malware serving practices!" is sort of like being vegan but eating meat anyway. If you really can't accept Spotify on some fundamental level you shouldn't be using Spotify.
All these people up in arms about ad-blockers on Spotify are just trying to justify being cheap.
Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
#857ha watch their total subscriber count drop
Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
#858Earlier quoted context omitted.
For now. Spotify has removed so many useful features from their desktop app over the years, I won't be surprised in the slightest when they remove the ability to listen to local files.
As a long time user on desktop, I haven't really seen much change or loss of features. The mobile app, on the other hand, tends to be flavor of the month. No longer defaulting to my library and instead the discovery home is probably the biggest annoyance
I'm surprised to see this. The integration of your personal library was totally ruined (for me) several years ago when they removed the ability to "unlink" songs. When you add your own files to Spotify, the files are scanned and sometimes matched against files in Spotify's own database. The trouble is that Spotify is pretty bad at identifying files correctly and will misidentify them and "link" them to a track on the service. Once this happens, you have no reasonable recourse.
To be fair, this is a pretty niche problem - tends to only be a problem when dealing with live music. So for example, if I have a concert recording, and make a playlist of those files for use in Spotify, Spotify will almost certainly replace at least one of those files with an album cut from the service. Now I'm left with a playlist of a live show that has had several tracks replaced with the _wrong_ version by Spotify.
The thing that initially drew me to Spotify was the fact that it made it pretty easy to integrate the music offered by the service with my personal library. I've always been disappointed that this feature was broken and left broken because the vast majority of people don't care about managing their own music libraries.
Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
#859It will be interesting to see how this goes.
If the users are serious about the right to choose for themselves. If they dislike adverts. Spotify may experience some business shrinkage.
That could signal a reversal of one catastrophic aspect of the current Internet.
Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
#860Earlier quoted context omitted.
>once they're settled... Should I be expected to monitor changes to a living document that I never read in the first place in order to know whether the current version means I am married to Spotify and act accordingly? Spotify is the one who defaulted first by not providing me the limitless free music I am owed.
If the terms change, they contact you that they changed. At that point, yeah, you’re bound by new terms if you continue using the service. That’s kind of been the way things have been since the advent of Internet services in general. I’m curious how you’re certain they defaulted first when you state that you never read the document in the first place.
Do they contact you? Most terms of service just say 'revisit here constantly in case we changed something'