Time to rebuild the web?

Re:Time to rebuild the web? by Just_Smith on Monday April 16, 2018 @01:01PM (#16850608)

I haven't used an ad blockers for Spotify in a long time (because I'm a premium user when I can afford it), but when I was using one, all it did was mute the ads when they came on.

Not perfect, but it certainly didn't break the mood as much as a randomly placed ad.

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Re:Time to rebuild the web? by TremendousJudge on Monday April 16, 2018 @02:39PM (#16851573)

I use Spotify web with uBlock. It doesn't mute audio ads, they just aren't there. Not sure how it works.

As a side note, the web app is hidden -- they want you to download the desktop app, from which you can't block ads. The thing is, the desktop app performs even worse than the web app

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Re:Time to rebuild the web? by YSFEJ4SWJUVU6 on Monday April 16, 2018 @06:14PM (#16853336)

You can watch uBlock's logger when using the web player to see what it does. AFAIK the blocking rules are imported from EasyList.

However, as far as user experience goes, I don't share your experiences at all – the web player is almost unbelievably bad, with frequently malfunctioning (disabled) player keys, volume slider jumping all over the place and common problems when resuming playback after a while. (Also, the desktop application has more features, including the ability to select multiple tracks to perform an operation on, and naturally the support for media keys.)

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Re:Time to rebuild the web? by FridgeSeal on Monday April 16, 2018 @05:04PM (#16852758)

You can definitely block ads on desktop Spotify: I did it by modifying my hosts file.

As for your first question, I think when it encounters what should be an audio ad in the queue, it attempts to play it, due to the host file, the ad request gets blocked/sent to a black hole and nothing is returned, so the application presumably assumes that everything was fine and continues on.

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