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 userbinator on Friday February 08, 2019 @07:51PM (#19119972)

It's irrelevant, because the publisher can deploy DRM in such a way as to make ad-blocking attempts illegal and easy to trace

How can they detect me covering the screen, looking away, or just not listening? How can that be illegal?

It's a cat-and-mouse game, and the mice will always win. Ultimately you'll get to the "analog hole of adblocking" situation anyway (user simply takes the headphones off or closes eyes or looks away etc.)

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Re:Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds a... by bad_user on Saturday February 09, 2019 @04:51AM (#19121576)

> It's a cat-and-mouse game, and the mice will always win

You don't have much experience with actual cats hunting mice to make that analogy.

Mice can win by breeding, but a lot of mice die in the process while the cat is getting fat.

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