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