Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack
gabbath@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I know the main topic is ditching Spotify, but on the secondary topic of screwing over Spotify…
I realized that you can “pirate” Spotify (i.e. listen indefinitely as if you had a paid account) if you have uBlock Origin on Edge. No setup needed, it just works. Most likely any Chromium-like browser will work.
Unfortunately, I haven’t got it to work with Zen browser which is Firefox based so I’m not sure if all Firefox based browsers are affected. The workaround I have for now is just have Edge open with Spotify in the background, and control it from the Spotify interface on Zen. Never download the app, they control that fully.
Funnily enough, I also got ad-free Spotify play on Amazon Echo when I was controlling it from Edge, though I never tried with Zen because I don’t use Echo anymore.
axx@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
What do you mean by “they control the app fully”? Something like github.com/abba23/spotify-adblock will let you run the app without ads, which kinda contradicts the idea they control the app fully.
gabbath@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh really? I didn’t know about that. Thanks! I meant they theoretically have full control over the app since they build the whole thing, rather than have it run in a browser environment which they can’t control and could theoretically be altered with extensions etc. Seems they’re not that great at controlling their own app either, lol
axx@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Happy to help!