Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers

Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by penagwin on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:39AM (#19114520)

Radio stations at least around the midwest here in the US only seem to play ~20 different songs, and it gets really repetitive, really fast, just ask anybody working retail.

Plus the genre's are rather limited, it's usually one or two pop stations (with 90% song overlap), one or two country, maybe NPR or something in a podcast format, etc. Meanwhile all of the ads.

Personally I'm on the student plan, and for what I like the listen to it's a steal for 5$ (and free hulu?) Any of the alternatives, deezer, apple music, etc would likely work too, but I can't imagine only using fm radio stations.

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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by Retric on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:45AM (#19114583)

Most radio stations are crap, but the world is a huge place. Listen to say WFMU out of NYC and you will hear a very wide selection of odd stuff.

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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by NikolaeVarius on Friday February 08, 2019 @10:04AM (#19114781)

And most of that odd stuff is also crap. I value the ability to discover music that is relevant to my tastes.

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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by Retric on Friday February 08, 2019 @10:37AM (#19115147)

I find novelty to be it’s own reward. However, that’s literally just 1 of ~100,000 radio stations out there. Spotify is decent, but if you want to try something else their really are great options.

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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by webninja on Saturday February 09, 2019 @03:19AM (#19121314)

Yeah haha, many of the Top 40 stations literally only rotate 40 songs at a time.

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