<story><title>Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/08/spotify-will-now-suspend-or-terminate-accounts-it-finds-are-using-ad-blockers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dessant</author><text>They allow advertisers to run JS on your device, and ads are a trendy way to deliver malware. People are using ad blockers not just to hide annoyances and to improve performance, but to protect themselves from bad actors.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;spotifyforbrands.com&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;ad-experiences&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;spotifyforbrands.com&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;ad-experiences&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; JavaScript or iFrame Tags: All third-party tags and tracking URLs need to be in https format.&lt;p&gt;I was on the fence about this because there is a legitimate need to bring in revenue from free users, but they should stick to audio, video and image ads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bicubic</author><text>Between the dwindling Netflix catalog and increasingly hostile subscription service experience on Spotify, I have found myself flying the black flag again. I still have subscriptions to both, but I will be cancelling them this year. I don&amp;#x27;t want their shitty analytics payloads, I don&amp;#x27;t want their shitty anti-adblocker tech. I don&amp;#x27;t want their shitty tactics of deleting random songs off my playlists. I just want the content I paid for.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not because I don&amp;#x27;t want to pay for the content, I&amp;#x27;d happily pay 2-3x under the right circumstances. It&amp;#x27;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, and manipulative cross-sell tactics.&lt;p&gt;Whatever arguments were made about piracy detracting from sales are laughable now. The copyright and ad lobbies are detracting from those sales, piracy is just a symptom of the cancer that they are.&lt;p&gt;Sonarr + Couchpotato + Plex + Subsonic is somehow a more consumer-friendly experience than their &amp;#x27;legitimate&amp;#x27; counterparts. The fact that the premium subscription cost for those services is more than netflix+spotify, and yet people are willing to pay that much for their piracy, that should be pretty telling to any industry analyst.</text></comment>
<story><title>Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/08/spotify-will-now-suspend-or-terminate-accounts-it-finds-are-using-ad-blockers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dessant</author><text>They allow advertisers to run JS on your device, and ads are a trendy way to deliver malware. People are using ad blockers not just to hide annoyances and to improve performance, but to protect themselves from bad actors.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;spotifyforbrands.com&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;ad-experiences&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;spotifyforbrands.com&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;ad-experiences&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; JavaScript or iFrame Tags: All third-party tags and tracking URLs need to be in https format.&lt;p&gt;I was on the fence about this because there is a legitimate need to bring in revenue from free users, but they should stick to audio, video and image ads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nathanaldensr</author><text>&amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;We&lt;/i&gt; can push anything we want to your device but don&amp;#x27;t you &lt;i&gt;dare&lt;/i&gt; try to block it. &lt;i&gt;That&amp;#x27;s&lt;/i&gt; a &lt;i&gt;Terms of Service Violation&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Well, it was nice knowing you Spotify.</text></comment>