Every single time I use Spotify, after the first advert it says to enjoy the next 30 minutes ad free. Then after a 2 minute long song, I get 5 minutes of adverts 😑. Every single time
Edit: using mutify now, thank you everyone!
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So stop ducking using the service. How else is it ever going to change?
Also, stop fucking using it
I used to get so annoyed at the auto correct to ducking but after a niece and nephew were introduced as variables I’ve found ducking the most effective sentence enhancer that doesn’t provoke a parent teacher conference for my brother lol
Stop using services that don’t care about their users for
fuck
's sake
I tried YouTube today for the first time in years. Its unwatchable. The frog must have been slowly boiling for years to have so many people accept what Youtube is now. Just wow.
I managed to watch about 10 minutes but had about 5 ads during that time, taking up several minutes of my time. It broke my focus and I forgot what the video was about.
Back to Newpipe.
I’ve actually subscribed to premium. YouTube + YT Music.
Yeah I have a few colleagues that did that too. But I dont want to support big tech by being paying user.
Ublock origin + sponsor block makes YouTube entirely watchable and you don’t have to fund this horrible company
You also support big tech by giving them traffic and watching the ads. The only way to not support them is to not use it.
My sympathy
I can only watch it with revanced and sponsorblock, otherwise I’d just watch some of my old downloaded stuff.
Why are you not using adblock and/or revanced?
I was using the official YouTube app since I wanted to use chromecast to get a video up on my tv.
I havent used revanced, seems interesting also. But Newpipe just does what I need so im happy.
Already have network wide adblocking but doesnt stop YouTube ads in their official app.
Network wide as in DNS based only goes so far. For your TV there’s Smarttube
Its an app? No i still have a dumb tv. 50 inch plasma that has lasted 10 years now i think. And I like that its not smart, so it doesnt talk to random stuff on the internet.
I guess I will replace it soon but when I do, that tv gets no internet access. :)
Just wait until you hear about piracy!
It’s a trap. Its been that way as long as I can remember. If any music service offers a longer ad for uninterrupted music, don’t do it.
Idk how it can even be considered a trap or legal its straight up false advertising, textbook definition
This is one service where the free version really isn’t worth it.
That’s basically my Pandora experience. They’ll have ads where if you click to watch a video, you’ll get X amount of time, usually an hour, ad free. There’s about a 50% chance the ad will cause the app to crash, but only AFTER the ad finishes playing. And once I start the app up again, it doesn’t remember the offer or that I watched the ad. Same thing if I close the app, accidentally or otherwise. If I start it back up, that ad free hour is gone.
This is one service I pay for and never had had to worry about ads. I can skip around, download and work it just like my offline music with no differences
I’m also paying for Spotify however I still get ads when listening to podcasts. Really bothering
And now they’re showing locked episodes, which drives me up the fucking wall. Seems to only be with all the podcasts that SirusXM is buying up as of late, which unfortunately make up a good chunk of what I listen to.
Yes! And the most annoying thing is if I add to My Episodes by accident, it’s impossible to remove.
I feel the same about youtube. I pay for premium, but sometimes creators bake in their own ads. I wish youtube would pay creators enough so they wouldn’t have to do it.
Use sponsorblock on YouTube for desktop or smarttube on Android tv
Sponsors often pay significantly more than YouTube. If YouTube were to match or exceed it they’d be losing money absurdly fast.
Those arent spotify ads, they’re the ads from the podcast. To my knowledge unless its a “spotify exclusive” all they are doing is fetching the RSS feed for you, not paying the creator anything regardless of your subscription status
Yeah, the complaining about spotify’s free tier is something I just don’t get. I grew up listening to the goddamn radio. No choice in what to listen to and ads all the time. But when your jam came on, it felt great every time.
I’m on a family plan with some friends. I’ve discovered a ton of new music because of Spotify. I’ve gone to many shows, bought merch, vinyls, for bands I never would’ve known had it not been for Spotify.
I’m just not sure what people want, but it reeks of entitlement. If you’re gonna pirate music, by all means, go to town. Nobody cares.
How many AI songs you have tho? Spotify has other ways to make money for itself and its cronies, namely by shoving fake generated music that big lables own down your playlist so the big label cartel gets more profit.
Probably not that many since I carefully curate my list and generally only listen to local artists or international that I’m familiar with.
- IOS; Sideloading EeveeSpotify.
- Windows; Specitify.
- Android; ReVanced.
There’s no reason to waste your time on ads.
God why does this not have more upvotes and why isn’t it the first comment. I literally was screaming how someone could be on here and not possibly know of the various ways to get around shitty ads.
YT music with ReVanced is a fucking dream, I love it. Spotify is probably also great. Didn’t even know about the iOS and Windows apps, but I hated iPhone and finally ditched Windows for Fedora so I don’t keep track of those as much.
But seriously they have so many options, especially on Android. Like there’s a FOSS app or patched option for literally everything on there.
Last time I checked, uBlock blocked ads on Spotify.
Last time I checked, uBlock blocked ads on Spotify.
Yeah, your right. uBlock Origin block advertisement on the browser. However, Spicetify blocks advertisement within the desktop app and allows for multiple add-ons/ extension plus customizing your entire app.
Use spot tube
why don’t you have an adblocker? I haven’t seen / heard an ad on one of my devices in 15 years.
Wait that’s a thing in Mobile devices?
Firefox + ublock origin + sponsor block (for youtube).
i don’t use apple products but it works on everything else
Look into NextDNS. It can block ads systemwide on your device.
If you’re on iPhone, SOL or use Spotify web with brave browser (in-built ad blocker).
If you’re on Android plenty of APKs that’ll disable ads and make you ‘premium’
There’s no reason to trust random APKs for stuff like this anymore when Revanced exists to let you build the APK yourself right on your phone with only the patches you want. Highly recommend!
I prefer my phone with malware, so I know I’m not alone
I haven’t considered this point before. Currently clicking on every sketchy ad I see.
I second the other user recommending revanced and also would like to throw in spotx-bash fix for the desktop spotify app ad removal.
https://github.com/SpotX-Official/SpotX-Bash
Windows version
with dns
Use spotube or simpmusic. Its not like spotify actually pays their artists jackshit. Just make sure to send small artists a few bucks if you really like their stuff
FYI: You can have unlimited advertisement free music if you actually pay for a subscription*. Or pirate.
*not necessarily true for podcasts, in which the podcaster could have ads baked into the recording.
Tbh I kinda don’t mind the podcaster ads when they put their own spin on it and are cute about it
Podcast ads are easy to skip. Still, i pay subscription to my favourite podcast network to support them, and it’s more convenient not having to skip.
This episode is brought to you by Me Undies
*not necessarily true for podcasts, in which the podcaster could have ads baked into the recording.
Actually not.
I like listening to the WAN show podcast from LTT. Amd as most here prpbably know they are very keen on monetizing a lot on their content.
As it turns out Spotify has different settings between podcasts and music. And they offer the creators to enable ads (even for premium subs) inbetween podcast episodes.
So if you queue the LTT-podcast after a regular song, you can get advertisements before and after an episode.
You can scrub through or skip the ad but it requires manual interaction to do so. And hot keys like on (BT-)headsets don’t work.I confirmed their existence with the Spotify support
That’s something I couldn’t listen to, so it’s not Mildly infuriating, it’s the upper tier…:-)
The free version of Spotify is really not worth it. Even Youtube music gives you a better experience.
I hate that YouTube Music keeps trying to make me waste my bandwidth on videos that have worse audio quality than when it just plays the song. 0/10 smoothbrain design, probably just to sell more video ads.
Can’t you force it to never play a video? My yt music never plays video by itself.
How did you do that?
Settings > data saving
Oh, so mobile-only.
