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Re:Spotifree – Free OS X App for Muting Spotify Ads by q3k on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @10:27AM (#20450334)
> Everyone in the comments is acting like you're comitting a war crime, but the majority sees no problem with adblockers, which are pretty similiar, especially autoclicking ones.

They're not similar.

1) There is no paid alternative to ads I see in Firefox - eg., I can't pay to support the sites I consume, like I can with Spotify.

2) Spotify ads might track my music listening habits. Web ads track everything I visit in a web broswer.

3) Spotify ads do not attempt to exploit my browser privacy features to deanonymize me.

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Re:Spotifree – Free OS X App for Muting Spotify Ads by megla_ on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:16AM (#20468359)
Similiar as in the only one who is losing money is the advertising company, that's why I've added especially autoclicking ones.

If nobody is seeing ads, nobody is really losing money, Google is just getting it slower.

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