I have heard this before from rando Reddit posts where it turns out they were listening to podcasts that just had the ads baked into the broadcast.
Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
Submitted 7 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428391
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 hour ago
Fermion@mander.xyz 5 minutes ago
They still serve personalized ads in the podcasts. They aren’t baked in.
null@lemmy.org 1 hour ago
Love hearing about products and services as I’m listening to my podcast about genocides and warcrimes. Mustard gas really gets me in the mood Blue Apron.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 hour ago
Mmm… Mustard… 🤤
madcaesar@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The minute I have ads in my paid subscription it’s a cancel
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Likewise. I’ve been putting off satting up a Soulseek+Navidrome stack on my home server. I’m sure there’s a way to integrate ListenBrainz suggestions too. First ad I hear, I’m doing it.
MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Soulseek for the win what is navidrome, i’m unfamiliar.
infinitevalence@discuss.online 6 hours ago
I buy my music from the artists as directly as possible via Band Camp.
whaleross@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer.
uuj8za@piefed.social 6 hours ago
Just recently signed up for Qobuz. I’m planning on purchasing albums as I go along so at least I’m left with something the day I decide to quit.
cenotaph@piefed.zip 5 hours ago
Fun fact, there are tools to rip FLAC files of music you stream on qobuz so you can build up your music hoard
just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Worst mobile app on the planet with SO many bugs, but dammit if they aren’t a clean platform otherwise.
XLE@piefed.social 6 hours ago
This is just the latest in a series of vibe-coding caused bugs, Spotify famously claimed their best devs were no longer writing any of their own code:
I don’t know if this makes it better or worse.
greenacres3233@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Worse. It makes it worse.
Brewchin@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It’s telling of this era that it’s impossible to initially know if this is corporate greed or vibe goonery.
So… intentional or unintentional enshittification, I guess. 😬
Gork@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
If I didn’t already cancel them, this would make me cancel them again.
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It’s why I cancelled SiriusXM a while back. I’m paying for the service so atop playing ads. And at the time it was like the same ad over and over. God it was infuriating.
deacon@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I would have to go and download an ad, and then upload it, and then select it from new additions in order to hear an ad on Plexamp.
But the subscription model is the framework for fuckery here.
It wasn’t long ago that subscribing to something, implied a consistent (usually periodical) delivery of actual goods or services that were in some way distinct from the previous periods good or services. Issue #33 is different from #32. March’s soup of the month is different than February’s.
And you could hold issue #33 in one hand and #32 in another hand and directly interact with two months worth of that subscription.
The tech bro idea of innovation is to get two revenue streams from each customer; keep us paying for the same thing over and over but never owning it, and sell our data to advertisers. The fact that they are also showing ads to subscribers is just dripping lemon juice in the paper cut because they can. They were already making money off that data.
chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 4 hours ago
Spotify has ads? I’ve never paid, I thought it just had to take little breaks after some songs because they were harder to play 🤔
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Ah no! The first company to play ads for paid subscribers
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Haven’t Amazon and Netflix been doing that for a long time already?
felbane@lemmy.world 51 minutes ago
thatisthejoke.meme
Kkk2237pl@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Is that confirmed? My whole family use Spotify and we didn’t have such issue…
darkmarx@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I can confirm. I have the family plan and got ads when I was listening earlier today. Contacted support. Got no where. Canceled my subscription.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’m guessing it impacted some people for there to be a Hacker News (a fairly respectable news outlet) article about it. I was just listening earlier today and didn’t have any ads. Same with my wife on her account (family plan).
Feyd@programming.dev 5 hours ago
Hacker news is not a news outlet. It is a forum/aggregator
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Heads up, Hacker News is a social media site like here or reddit, it’s not a news outlet. It’s run by Y Combinator, a huge venture capital firm in the SF Bay area, and the users tend to be tech bros or aspiring ones. Many attach their user accounts to their github and professional identity. I think there’s only one admin and they tend to be heavy handed.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Weird, I use free Spotify and don’t hear adds
(SpotX)
HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 6 hours ago
And then they wonder why everyone is fixing the hulls of their ships and getting new sails.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Or self hosting their own Jellyfin
artyom@piefed.social 1 hour ago
It’s the same thing.