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IF this is happening it's gotta be a mistake. Ads on paid spotify will be the end of my subscription.

• lich_king 6mo ago
  We paid for newspapers and they ran ads. We paid for cable TV and it had ads. We went to the cinema and watched ads. Ad-free paid services were a brief aberration, essentially a bait-and-switch: "see how much nicer we are from the old-school competitors". Now that the competitors are gone, Netflix is doing ads, Amazon is doing ads... why wouldn't Spotify? I hate it, but the reality is that we groan on online forums but don't actually leave.
  • jbb67 6mo ago
    It's very much easier to ignore ads in a newspaper. It's not so easy when you are forced to listen to them before the thing you paid for. It's not the same.
  • happytoexplain 6mo ago
    "But you don't leave" is an excuse the human-hating producers tell themselves. But it's normal for consumers to be protected from the petty misery of natural market forces by legislation. We have enacted many such controls.
  • JumpCrisscross 6mo ago
    > We paid for newspapers and they ran ads. We paid for cable TV and it had ads. We went to the cinema and watched ads To be fair, ad-free options for each of these later emerged. I pay up for them.
  • vpribish 6mo ago
    maybe you did, but I did not. my attention is valuable to me and I do not pay people to waste it. i had tapes, CDs, mp3s, and paid spotify. this is a well-proven market.