<story><title>I paid for a perpetual license of TeamViewer. Stop calling and emailing me</title><url>https://twitter.com/linusgsebastian/status/1445974503771672581</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>laputan_machine</author><text>Yes, it will be the hardcoded ads in the podcast, but I think the point still remains.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Apparently Spotify also does dynamic ads too! Greedy...&lt;p&gt;At that point, why not just use another service instead of Spotify for podcasts? E.g. Pocket Casts. If you pay for the Spotify subscription I&amp;#x27;d expect _all_ ads to be removed.</text></item><item><author>atraac</author><text>&amp;gt; Even though I had been a (long time, non-family subscription) premium user of Spotify, they started playing ads during podcasts (music was fine). How is that a &amp;quot;premium&amp;quot; service? Canceled the sub.&lt;p&gt;This is interesting to me because besides ads that are hardcoded into the podcast by creators, I have never heard an ad in Spotify premium, not a single time for years I&amp;#x27;ve been using it. Not sure if country of origin has something to do with it, but I&amp;#x27;m from Poland.</text></item><item><author>nvilcins</author><text>Even though I had been a (long time, non-family subscription) premium user of Spotify, they started playing ads during podcasts (music was fine). How is that a &amp;quot;premium&amp;quot; service? Canceled the sub.&lt;p&gt;Tangent: Now that I occasionally play music on Spotify I get ads in the form &amp;quot;We know you were a premium user before, how is life with the free service now?&amp;quot;. I find that somewhat creepy and disturbing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atraac</author><text>If an advert is hardcoded by the author into the file they upload, how do you suppose Spotify should remove that? They don&amp;#x27;t have rights to do that but even if they could, they would need to programmatically detect when the ad starts, ends and cut it out from the file? Soft Skills Engineering does this for example, they record their own audio for the ad and play it like it&amp;#x27;s a part of the podcast, I don&amp;#x27;t mind that as it helps authors, but that has nothing to do with Spotify.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve heard about some dynamic adds Spotify supposedly adds, that are usually not related to the podcast itself, but I&amp;#x27;ve never encountered a single one like that.</text></comment>
<story><title>I paid for a perpetual license of TeamViewer. Stop calling and emailing me</title><url>https://twitter.com/linusgsebastian/status/1445974503771672581</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>laputan_machine</author><text>Yes, it will be the hardcoded ads in the podcast, but I think the point still remains.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Apparently Spotify also does dynamic ads too! Greedy...&lt;p&gt;At that point, why not just use another service instead of Spotify for podcasts? E.g. Pocket Casts. If you pay for the Spotify subscription I&amp;#x27;d expect _all_ ads to be removed.</text></item><item><author>atraac</author><text>&amp;gt; Even though I had been a (long time, non-family subscription) premium user of Spotify, they started playing ads during podcasts (music was fine). How is that a &amp;quot;premium&amp;quot; service? Canceled the sub.&lt;p&gt;This is interesting to me because besides ads that are hardcoded into the podcast by creators, I have never heard an ad in Spotify premium, not a single time for years I&amp;#x27;ve been using it. Not sure if country of origin has something to do with it, but I&amp;#x27;m from Poland.</text></item><item><author>nvilcins</author><text>Even though I had been a (long time, non-family subscription) premium user of Spotify, they started playing ads during podcasts (music was fine). How is that a &amp;quot;premium&amp;quot; service? Canceled the sub.&lt;p&gt;Tangent: Now that I occasionally play music on Spotify I get ads in the form &amp;quot;We know you were a premium user before, how is life with the free service now?&amp;quot;. I find that somewhat creepy and disturbing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>&amp;gt;I&amp;#x27;d expect _all_ ads to be removed&lt;p&gt;spotify can&amp;#x27;t do that unless they own the rights to the podcast, otherwise they might run afowl of copyright laws. I believe their intent is to have one place for podcasts (both their own premium ones and freely accessible public ones).</text></comment>