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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by baddox on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:56PM (#19118045)
It's not stealing or violating any law (as far as I know, and if there is a law against it, I vehemently oppose the law). It's no different than muting radio commercials or recording live TV and fast-forwarding through the commercials. I'm not responsible for Spotify's business model or tech stack.

If Spotify wants to deliver free music bundled with advertisements, it's on them to implement that bundling correctly. If their implementation is two endpoints, one that returns music and another that returns ads, and they just politely suggest that everyone who uses the first endpoint also uses the second, I am in no way obligated to follow their suggestion.

Spotify is free to implement a less laughable implementation of ad bundling, and they're free to block my free account if they don't like my behavior, but I will always oppose any claim that I am obligated to make a request to endpoint B (and execute the code it returns!!!) if I make a request to endpoint A.

For clarity, the "I" in the above paragraphs is hypothetical. I don't use Spotify, but I do pay for Apple Music (not because I feel like I owe them, but because I like the service and think it is worth the price).

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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by johncolanduoni on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:19PM (#19118262)
What is so special about network requests that should be an exception here? If you sign a lease for an apartment that requires you to get liability insurance from a separate provider of your choice, do you also think you have every moral right to not purchase such insurance because it's a different "endpoint"?
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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by leothecool on Friday February 08, 2019 @04:49PM (#19119011)
What is special in this case is that the first request's payload contains the address of the second request.

It would be like not knowing what insurance company you will have to use until you walk into your apartment for the first time.

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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by baddox on Friday February 08, 2019 @08:12PM (#19120065)
Isn’t the penalty for not getting the liability insurance that you get evicted? I don’t think there are criminal charges or damages that would be rewarded. So that’s just the same as Spotify suspending your account.
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