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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by ddebernardy on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:59PM (#19118610)
Regardless. If radios can get away with throwing an ad every few songs, why can't Spotify et al?
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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by dylan604 on Friday February 08, 2019 @11:37PM (#19120764)
Because my radio playing an ad does not offer the potential for damaging my computer
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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by ddebernardy on Sunday February 10, 2019 @12:48AM (#19126542)
How can an audio ad served by Spotify served in between two songs possibly damage your computer?
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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by dylan604 on Sunday February 10, 2019 @03:18AM (#19126863)
How would an ad blocker affect those ads? Why be obtuse? Ad blockers run in a browser to block ads from the visited website. Those ads have in the past and currently been known to deliver malicious code to the browser. Spotify is threatening to suspend the accounts of someone protecting their system from this attack vector.
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