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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

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Post by chrisfosterelli »

michaelmior wrote: post #271
cletus wrote: post #255

Good. 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…

> 1-2 coffees a month Where do you buy coffee that one coffee costs $10?! (or even $5?) I still don't think it's a lot of money, but not quite so trivial.

> or even $5?

$10 is obviously nuts, but I find this one surprising as I've seen it come up a couple times. I'm on Vancouver island in BC and I'd be hard pressed to find a non-drip coffee that's not from a fast food place and isn't almost $5 after taxes.

Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers

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Post by School-Cotton »

minikites wrote: post #276
School-Cotton wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

A better analogy is a protection racket: pay up or we'll serve ads that might contain malware to your device. If Spotify took responsibility for fixing my computer when it gets a worm from an ad, we'd have a deal that is much more fair.

Nothing forces you to use Spotify.

Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

yial wrote: post #277
michaelmior wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1-2 coffees a month Where do you buy coffee that one coffee costs $10?! (or even $5?) I still don't think it's a lot of money, but not quite so trivial.

Using US prices, a black basic coffee is probably $2-3 at a coffee shop. Any kind of specialty drinks, which most people I would believe get at Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, the local coffee shop, end up being $5-8, not even in a major city or metropolitan area.

Basic at my local shop is under $2, including the sweetener bar (cream, raw sugar, nutmeg in a grinder(!) etc)

Its actually a family-owned chocolate shop (Winan's) offering Yurgacheffe, Costa Rican, Nicaraguan, Guatamalan and many blends. So a pretty good deal!

Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers

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Post by School-Cotton »

enraged_camel wrote: post #224
School-Cotton wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A non-paying customer who doesn't listen to ads has absolutely zero value to Spotify. Why shouldn't they block them?

Because non-paying customers have the potential to become paying ones.

Plenty of businesses don't give away free samples, and survive fine.

Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers

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Post by arkades »

Every time someone says, "ugh, I'd pay for FB just to remove the ads" ... well, here you are.

This is spotify's action to protect its revenue for its ad-supported free offering. You can pay to be rid of it.

Absolutely no one is strong-arming you into this.

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Post by GhostVII »

I think more companies with a free and paid teir should start doing this. The answer to ads shouldn't be an ad blocker, it should be to pay for the service. The big problems we have to solve with this is making it easier and safer to pay for online services, and giving more services a paid and a free tier.

Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers

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Post by School-Cotton »

magduf wrote: post #202
School-Cotton wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A non-paying customer who doesn't listen to ads has absolutely zero value to Spotify. Why shouldn't they block them?

Because then they tell all their less-technical friends and family that Spotify is shitty and evil and not to use them.

If this were a real thing, we'd all be using Linux on the Desktop by now.

Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers

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Post by netrap »

SnowingXIV wrote: post #118

Long time premium spotify user, but it seems they are more interested in their ad-tech than anything else. They introduce 0 new features or improvements and in fact actually remove things over time. It's amazing to see a product continue to get worse. Before you could send your friends a message within Spotify to send a song for them to listen while in the application and could even carry on a discussion. It was slic…

Really miss that feature as well. It's a real shame it was removed.

Re: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers

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Post by School-Cotton »

onemoresoop wrote: post #278
devy wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am on a paid account and I use ad blockers religiously. Will Spotify still terminate my account?!

Do they have ads in the paid version??

No.
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