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Is there a Spotify alternative that has no ads?

I pay for Spotify for 7 years or so now and i'm so sick of all the ads. After every update there seems to be an: oops, sorry, you have ads now. Podcasts are filled with ads. I was just listening to a podcast where they shoved in 3 ads mid-sentence. How long until musicians put ads in their songs. I'm just so sick of it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's weird, I've seen quite a few posts like the OP relatively recently complaining about how Spotify premium suddenly has ads now. Yet I've had a premium subscription for 10 year now (rip my $$$) and have yet to hear a single ad since subbing. Well, unless it's a sponsored segment placed in there by the creator.

Maybe it's because I don't listen to many podcasts? But even when I have, I have literally never heard a Spotify ad. Maybe the specific podcasts I've listened to don't have the "feature" that OP describes.

Maybe it's regional? Maybe it's an error? Maybe OP doesn't recognize ads placed there by the content creator?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Could even be their subscription lapsed and they somehow didn't notice. It has, occasionally, not popped up with the big red banner telling me my payment didn't go through and I only knew something was wrong because I get ads and can't play the exact song I want because I was no longer using Premium.