But can they block me muting the ads?
Dont give them any ideas. Next they will require you to say the advertised brand name 5 times in order to get back to the content.
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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
#142They allow advertisers to run JS on your device, and ads are a trendy way to deliver malware. People are using ad blockers not just to hide annoyances and to improve performance, but to protect themselves from bad actors. https://spotifyforbrands.com/en-US/ad-experiences/ > JavaScript or iFrame Tags: All third-party tags and tracking URLs need to be in https format. I was on the fence about this because there is a le…
Between the dwindling Netflix catalog and increasingly hostile subscription service experience on Spotify, I have found myself flying the black flag again. I still have subscriptions to both, but I will be cancelling them this year. I don't want their shitty analytics payloads, I don't want their shitty anti-adblocker tech. I don't want their shitty tactics of deleting random songs off my playlists. I just want the c…
Bandcamp is definitely my favourite platform for buying music. No DRM, flac format available if that's your thing. Artists can put up both digital and physical merch.
Wish they had a more fully-featured experience for streaming music on PC. Downloading to play in foobar is a bit of a faff sometimes!
Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s fascinating to me is the length people go to in order to justify freeloading. If you don’t like the ads, Spotify has a subscription plan. In my country that’s €5 / month. Surely that’s less money spent than the effort it takes to pirate music for usage with foobar2000.
So you're rewarding them for bad behavior with your money. Think about what this does to their incentives.
It's totally unclear to me why you think this should be considered bad behavior.
Imagine a grocery store has a promotion - you can get a loaf of bread for free if you listen to a twenty minute advertising presentation. Does this justify not going to the presentation, and just stealing the bread?
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Then why don’t you pay for a subscription? If you keep listening to Spotify, surely it brings you value. I know I’m getting value from it. I listen to music all day at work and personally I don’t have many services that I use so often.
Because you already pay with your time and attention when they play ads. Why should you pay for a subscription?
Because the subscription service is ad-free?
Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
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mp3s are compressed and lossy. Makes them unsuitable for buying. There are a few sites like bandcamp that sell flacs. Not sure why the big players don't let you buy flacs. It's not like there's an engineering issue. Maybe they get the rights only for lossy files. Edit: Since some will invariably point out that you can't hear flacs, here's a better argument. Even if you prefer lossy music, there are and will be better…
Then buy the CDs as if you can probably tell the difference. You're just making excuses for not wanting to pay.
Yep.
At this point now there's so much paid music available in high quality than anyone who says that it's still not good enough is looking for reasons to feel better about themselves for not paying.
Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
#146I dont get why people use spotify instead of listening to free online radios from anywhere in the world. As a bonus, its like travelling. There are ads, but they target other people than you so its not even annoying (you will not be influenced to buy a car at a dealership in another country). Note that if you are the kind who likes targeted ads, this does not apply to you.
I saw this on HN awhile ago and thought it was pretty cool: http://radio.garden/live/guarda/altitude/
It's a globe you can move around and tune into radio stations all around the world just like you're talking about.
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#147Sounds like a reasonable move. Spotify delivers so much value that I couldn’t imagine not paying for it (or enduring ads). I listened to something like 25 straight days of music last year.
I can't believe I had to scroll down this far to find someone talking any sense. Is it really the case that most of HN are listening to Spotify all day every day and blocking the ads?
Why not just pay for it!?
Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because you already pay with your time and attention when they play ads. Why should you pay for a subscription?
Premium doesn't have any of those ads. And if you're blocking their ads you're not paying with time and attention. Spotify seems pretty reasonable to me, it's free with ads or you can pay for a better product with no ads.
As long as the ads are not running code on my device, yeah sure I understand it. When they allow for Javascript and iframes... Block them away.
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You can. You can freely mix purchased DRM free music, music from other sources and streaming music on Apple Music.
I believe GP addressed that: > services like Spotify and Apple Music incourage extra data usage, and randomally delete music as they see fit I certainly wouldn't use a service that deletes my music.
It's less than $10/month, what are you expecting? Getting all the music in the world and have the ability to keep it for yourself? They own the music, you are renting a service. All the same music is available for purchase if you want to own it.
Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
#150They allow advertisers to run JS on your device, and ads are a trendy way to deliver malware. People are using ad blockers not just to hide annoyances and to improve performance, but to protect themselves from bad actors. https://spotifyforbrands.com/en-US/ad-experiences/ > JavaScript or iFrame Tags: All third-party tags and tracking URLs need to be in https format. I was on the fence about this because there is a le…
> They allow advertisers to run JS on your device, and ads are a trendy way to deliver malware.
I wonder if the ad industry is onboard with HTTPS yet? In 2013 when I was last looking at ads as an attack vector, none did, and many executed JS, or gave privileged access to system APIs on device via JS, which meant that it was fairly trivial to intercept ad delivery, return malicious JS, open a "reverse JS shell" and poke about the filesystem in the app, open new screens, etc, all remotely.
I reported this as a vulnerability in several apps, telling them that HTTPS was an important aspect of preventing this, and was told that ad networks were against HTTPS and therefore they had to find alternative mitigations.