I hate ads and they are often brain melting / malicious / resource hogging anyway. I also cannot afford to pay $5-10 for dozens of separate services a month at the moment. Guess I'll be listening to other sites if they ban me. You win Spotify.
Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was with you until > I don't want to pay for something I only use for a few hours per day tops. A few hours a day adds up pretty quickly. Though I can understand not wanting _two_ music streaming service subscriptions.
That's the thing.. I'm already paying for two music streaming services that I use far more often than Spotify. And my wording isn't clear, but I don't listen to it 'a few hours per day every day.' It's more like 'a few hours when I do listen to music at work, which I don't usually do.' I'd guess that it's less than 10 hours per month that I'm listening to Spotify.
why dont you just ditch the other two subscriptions and use spotify exclusively ?
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#243Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, it's a free service. They have no reason to care about users, who block ads and don't intend to ever become paying customers.
The attitude you describe can easily hurt their business. They may be future paying customers that are exploring your service, or don't have the money yet to subscribe. And even in the latter group there is an opportunity for building brand loyalty. But to see these opportunities, the first step is to not have a hostile attitude towards your users.
but you forgot how businesses work these days:
Fuck you, Pay me
Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
#245Considering how services like Spotify and Apple Music incourage extra data usage, and randomally delete music as they see fit, I'm finding myself thinking more and more of these services as discovery tools (akin to radio) and less like media players (they aren't). One day very soon I'll be playing all my music in something else entirely again. While it's impossible to brush off the value of streaming services like Sp…
> and randomally delete music as they see fit
They don't randomly delete things. They remove content due to licensing expiring. Thank our backwards media licensing system for that.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's not because I don't want to pay for the content, I'd happily pay 2-3x under the right circumstances. It's because no one wants to take my money and provide the content I want without bundling it with drm, ads, dark patterns, insane region segmentation. Can't help you with movies/Netflix, but in the case of Spotify, you could go back to buying mp3's. Google Play, Amazon, iTunes (aac format), etc will all sell y…
Netflix offers too much value for a small amount plus the size of movies makes downloading/previewing the throwaway type of netflix shows make it hard to justify the effort to pirate. Spotify always seems less useful compared to winamp if you knew what music you liked or like to download everything from one band who's best days are behind them. A hassle for new stuff but if you want the all of the 'yes' albums the ra…
A happy medium for me is google play music. Basically the same song selection and features as spotify, plus the ability to upload your own mp3s that aren't available on the platform (I actually haven't used this feature in a while, but it seems like it still works). And you get ad-free youtube as well.
Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
#247The amount of people here outraged that Spotify is preventing them from blocking ads on the free tier is astounding. Pay for the service if you don't want ads.
+1 spotify literally costs (per month) < 2 venti lattes from your favorite cafe, and less than a beer at most bars in NYC and 1/2 of this thread is complaining
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#248Earlier 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.
What’s fascinating to me is the length people go to in order to justify freeloading. Fuck the money, I’m not letting a site run arbitrary code on my machine, especially when they have a track record of spying and installing malware. They have a right to make a living, I have a right to own my property without having it damaged by casual greed.
Then pay for the plan! That's the point!
Or don't. I've pirated music and movies. I just don't get too mad about it.
My point, put another way: I respect the desire to block JS ads, AND I respect the will a non-critical app in a competitive market to make stupid decisions with their ad policy. AND people who don't like that policy can move to Amazon/Google/Apple/other music platforms, or pay Spotify Premium.
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#249The only reason I use an ad-blocker with Spotify in the first place is that they have an abundance of NSFW ads that play. I'm not really comfortable with Trojan advertisements while I'm sitting in the office plugging away. It's definitely their right to deny service if people are freeloading... but there could be other people like me who wouldn't use an ad blocker in the first place (on Spotify, at least) if the ads…
> I'm not really comfortable with Trojan advertisements while I'm sitting in the office plugging away
Why not? I don't understand the problem with a condom ad.
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#250I just want the content I paid for.