And with nearly 50 million paying customers, they certainly have proven that premium-only is a model that can work.īut Spotify has its own business philosophies, and the company isn’t running an ad-blocking rehab center. Outside of a limited free trial window, Apple Music is all paid, by design, and proud of it. Of course, Apple would argue that none of this is a problem if you don’t have a free, ad-supported tier to begin with. Two platforms, with two very different ways of approaching the same problem. But now, those ads are migrating from banner ads into pre-roll video ads, with little discernible policing from YouTube. Since last year, we’ve been getting actual advertisements on YouTube promoting ad-blocking (think about that). We are continuing to invest heavily in refining those processes and improving methods of detection and removal, and reducing the impact of this unacceptable activity on legitimate creators, rights holders, advertisers and our users.” All of which dramatically pales in comparison to the ad-blocking mess on YouTube. “Spotify has multiple detection measures in place monitoring consumption on the service to detect, investigate and deal with such activity. “We take the artificial manipulation of streaming activity on our service extremely seriously,” the company told Digiday. Rather, it appears to be part of a highly concerted effort by Spotify to address the ad-hacking issue. None of this is a haphazard response by Spotify. That was validated by a few user reports, though we’re not entirely clear what these users were doing (and there’s probably a list of serious no-no’s that will quickly get you banned). I have no use for the pirated version but never got rid of them.”įor those that refuse to play ball, Spotify is apparently banning certain users. It just so happens that yesterday I could not get it to connect on my phone, it wasn’t until I deleted the apks from my Dropbox that it started working again. “I used to use the pirated apk but stopped when I started paying for it.
“I’ve been paying for and using Spotify premium for a while now,” the user reported. Here’s what happened to one user (on Reddit) who actually started his Spotify experience on a cracked version and upgraded into Premium. Ad-blockers come in all shapes and sizes, so the ‘unauthorized or modified version of Spotify’ refers to anything that cracks or hacks the Spotify platform. Access is suspended, with total reinstatement (and no penalties) if the situation is fixed. That first warning is designed to gently lay down the law. To access your Spotify account, simply uninstall any unauthorized or modified version of Spotify and download and install the Spotify app from the official Google Play Store.” “We detected abnormal activity on the app you are using so we have disabled it. For example, here’s a message recently received by an ad-blocking Android user:
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