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

Post by buckminster » Fri, Feb 08, 2019, 5:37 PM UTC

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If bootlegs and unreleased tracks were officially released, they would become official and released tracks. If there's a specific unreleased track you want, fine, pirate that. I don't think there's anything wrong with pirating content that's not available for sale (as long as you buy it if/when it does become available for sale). However, the existence of some unreleased tracks do not give you license to pirate track…

The problem is that if your tastes are not very conventional, the "exceptions" are half the cases, and you start to wonder why you bother. A good example is Morphine's The Night . We're not talking about a bootleg record, it's a proper studio album owned by UMG. Yet it's not available on Spotify, Google Music or Amazon Music. It's on iTunes, but that requires installing a native app, which doesn't run on any of my de…

Post by baybal2 » Fri, Feb 08, 2019, 5:39 PM UTC

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The epidemic of JS heavy ads is there for 2 reasons: 1. fraud, 2. tracking I myself is skeptical about advertisements having future as such. In the age of the Internet, ads are the least useful method to discover product info. The analogy for Internet ads today is like if modern cars were propelled by horses - an unviable arrangement. I know many online only companies making good money and spending literally zero on…

I would like to see this argument based on data as opposed to your feelings. There are many years of argument about the effectivity of advertisment, with a ton of data. One can usually argue that ads are not worth the price... it's very hard to find data that they are completely ineffective. They may be less effective due to ab blocking tech but they are still able to influence people.

Post by dewey » Fri, Feb 08, 2019, 5:40 PM UTC

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CDs don't send money to musicians either, unless they are self-publishing. But there's still a gap: I can't mix my paid-for (ripped) CDs and paid-for MP3s/AACs with streams in one app. This is the problem of letting the music distributer (Spotify) also control the player app.

> I can't mix my paid-for (ripped) CDs and paid-for MP3s/AACs with streams in one app It's not an optimal solution, but iTunes can import songs from CDs, and you can add other mp3s to your library, but it doesn't cloud sync across devices. Another solution is Google Play Music, which can import your iTunes library (and CDs indirectly from iTunes) and does do cloud sync.

Post by chucksmash » Fri, Feb 08, 2019, 5:41 PM UTC

Post by dangravell » Fri, Feb 08, 2019, 5:49 PM UTC

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furicane wrote: post #36

It's fascinating how we, humans, are lazy. We're lazy to the point where we'd gladly allow services like Spotify to control our computers just so they can make sure their ad was delivered. We'll even justify it by "well, I really listen to a lot of music". All I want is to push a button and get some bearable-noise during my 8 hours at work. I don't know about the rest, but I really hate when someone makes a fool out…

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.