It ' s really rather simple . Spotify uses a few hostnames like ap . spotify . com . Your provider probably filters out all requests to these hostnames for which they don ' t charge your dataplan . More likely though , is they filter out ipaddresses matched with those hostnames in their DNS which is like a phonebook for hostnames , listing their ipaddressesIn short , your request for a song is sent to an ipaddress , which belongs to one or probably a few servers . Any request for a song , or a spoofed one pretending to get a song sent to that server will end there . Unless they relay or proxy requests , which they don ' t . Or you can setup some sort of relay or vpn , which you can ' t <| sep |> Zxcv plz add that waaaaa 10 minutes and laggggggg shit to the banned post list it ' s every other post at this point and most of this sub doesn ' t give 2 shits