obligatory fuck spotify. the worst streaming service ever https://youtu.be/x6x5t0cj1sM
Also the only one with a Linux client
It's unofficially done by some Devs in their free time. I low key hate that it's publicised as having a Linux client, other devices also have unofficial clients.
Tidal also has Tidal-HiFi, an electron wrapper of the web client that enables HiFi music, which is pretty much all I care for a desktop client. It also pays artists much better so... Yeah.
I rather use the page directly and have ublock deal with ads
I’m more bothered by there being ads inserted in podcasts when I’m a paying customer tbh
Wait what. I know some platforms for managing podcasts like Anchor shove in ads, sometimes even mid sentence, but this is the first I hear of Spotify itself inserting them
This is what made a lot of people I know stop using Spotify for podcasts.
My coworker told me they were listening to a podcast, and while the podcasts host were mid ad read for their sponsor, Spotify put an ad in. So he got an ad during an ad.
Thanks, Xzibit.
Can confirm. I got annoyed with it and moved away from Spotify for podcasts a year or two ago. #NoRegrets
https://www.audiobookshelf.org/ For your podcasts
https://www.navidrome.org/ for your music
https://symfonium.app/ for playback of both
https://github.com/spotbye/SpotiFLAC for stealing raw FLACs from fucking Tidal using Spotify metadata because I guess their shit is about as secure as a picnic basket held closed with an anti-bear ziptie.
And you're sponsoring fascists..
You get 30 minutes of ad-free listening, but not all in a row. Sounds like you got 8 minutes worth already; after this ad, you can get another 8 minutes.
That's supposed to be a comma - "Enjoy 30 minutes of ad, free listening"
No, money down!
30 minutes of ad free music. Not all in a row though.
Dispersed over a 10 year period.
You can sue them. If is not specified that must be in a row you CAN sue, or at least you can report them with the competent organization. It's in normal language, not legal language. People using spotify are not lawyers, are normal people. If the thing says "30 minutes free" it do must mean that, no "ooohhh you mean, 30 minutes, like, in row??" bullshit.
Fuck Spotify. Also, I can't hear the music that I want in their free plan, because I choose some song and the platform plays whatever they want. Again, fuck them.
You can sue them.
Excited to collect $.26 in damages after six years in court.
They probably have a forced arbitration clause. Using an arbitrator of their choice, of course.
There's 30 minutes ad free spread over the duration of your subscription. I thought everybody had figured it out.
So, over the course of a year I get 30 minutes that aren't ads?
In retrospect, it could be hilariously worth it to buy an ad spot and just play that "enjoy 30 minutes of ad free listening" blurb.
Usually you just redirect some host names to localhost and all your ad problems magically disappear.
Google is spending half their R&D budget trying to prevent this on YouTube.
Google folks aren't stupid to serve ads from different host in their yt.
Damn, they let you get 2 whole songs in? Usually I get 3 ads right after "30 minutes of ad free listening" one
Man I haven’t gotten that “30 minutes of uninterrupted listening” shit in a few months. I swear, they’ve been slowly increasing the amount of ads per song, from like 1 ad per 4 songs to I shit you not, 2 ads per song. I usually have to restart the web page since it gets stuck on desktop, or close the app on mobile. They’re probably overcompensating since they’re salty they aren’t getting any revenue from me.
I'll never understand why people don't just make playlists of music and save it down locally.
I had no less than sixteen hours of music in CDs stuffed in my glove box back in college. Would cycle through that maybe once or twice a month. Maybe I'd throw on a little NPR if I was curious about the news. But why on God's Green Earth would you subject yourself to the garbage radio networks available in the modern era?
I hate the pay for ad-free subscription model. They use people's personal data to optimize the experience, making their ads as annoying and disorienting as possible.
When Reddit first unveiled their subscription, they began spamming my phone with obnoxious herpes advertisements. The ad just said "Herpes?" in big purple letters. Since this particular subject invoked a sense of fear and anxiety, it made me more likely to pay for their removal.
Back when I used spotify, it was exclusively via desktop browser with ublock, never had an ad load
Cracked apks exist, people.
It's not telling you that you will receive 30 minutes of ad-free listening. It's suggesting that you do that by upgrading to a more expensive tier. Or by other means 🏴☠️
Sirius pulled that shit too, never understood how it could possibly be legal
Kind of a stretch to call it getting scammed when he didn't pay anything...
He was scammed of his time watching the long ad that promised ad free 30 min. The revenue Spotify gets from advertising companies is only there because users listen to those ads, so users are also providing a service to Spotify.
Not that big of a stretch.
Payment doesn't mean money. You can pay in labour, or in gold, or in your time.
I don't understand how
The Pirate Bay doesn't have ads.
Well it does but only on the website where your ad blocker gets them gone for you.
Hey we said you get 30 minutes we never said consecutive… I bet you have like a bank of stored minutes and they continue expiring while you’re not listening. So legally you get the full 30 minutes…. Just not when you expected to.
Isn't Spotify so cheap, that there's no point in using the free version? I'm using Tidal and it is, in fact, so cheap that there is no point in using the free version.
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