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Comment by Sohcahtoa82

5 days ago

> The amount of ads they started to push to paying(!) users

I have never in the history of paying for Spotify had an ad play.

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rplnt  5 days ago

I get ads in podcasts. Not sponsored segments that the podcast creator inserted/narrated themselves (like used to happen), but ad served by Spotify itself, injected into the podcast. Easily 5 minutes in 30 min podcast[1], though this varies and I'm sure it is configurable by the podcast publishers.

1. This is not by feel, Spotify leaks it by displaying the original length and then updated one once it loads.

  • theintern  5 days ago

    Other platforms do this too like pocketcasts. I assume it's the backend distribution network identifying your IP address and inserting 'relevant' ads. I don't believe it's being added by the podcast app (though for Spotify it may be, don't know)