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master131 / BlockTheSpot

Video, audio & banner adblock/skip for Spotify. This project has been superceded by SpotX: https://github.com/SpotX-CLI/SpotX-Win
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Spotify will terminate accounts using ad-block from March 1 #8

Open thaumictom opened 5 years ago

thaumictom commented 5 years ago

Spotify updated their ToS which will start at the 1st March, saying that blocking ads is now illegal and it will result in a termination of the account.

See this Verge article for source.

What will you do about it? I am worried...

OzakIOne commented 5 years ago

Personally i'll export my spotify playlist on feb 28 and if my account is deleted i'll just create another one and add again all my songs and find a new adblocker

edit : spotify said they will block adblocker but this doesnt mean this adblocker will trigger spotify protection against adblocker

master131 commented 5 years ago

It's out of my hands, use at your own risk.

nachoverdon commented 5 years ago

Is it possible to play the ad muted without blocking the playlist?

master131 commented 5 years ago

@nachoverdon

Is it possible to play the ad muted without blocking the playlist?

Should probably use EZBlocker then.

nachoverdon commented 5 years ago

I tried it already, but that still blocks the next song from playing...

Hope you find a way around this. Thanks for your work so far.

LOQUILLO commented 5 years ago

"Spotify will terminate accounts using ad-block from March 1" This is only for free accounts

thaumictom commented 5 years ago

Why would premium users use an ad-block

Typharon commented 5 years ago

So my account had not been blocked. Anyone else? Is it safe, or should I uninstall?

OzakIOne commented 5 years ago

So far so good nothing happened for me too.

ghost commented 5 years ago

If your account is that precious then why would you take the risk?

Like someone else said, you can either export your lists, or because I don't care for playlists and only listen when I feel like it, I just use a disposable account, and if it gets banned, I'll make a new one and continue.

Either way, Spotify is made up of incompetent fools. They won't give us a light theme, can't get a "clear queue" button working across every platform, and have a messy forum structure. The clear queue button issue has been going on since 2012 and still hasn't been fixed. Thank you for making this so I don't have to give any money to these goons. Unfortunately that means the artists too, but let's be realistic, how much actually goes to artists?

Either way don't mind if my account gets banned. A refreshed working cracked deezer APK came out a few days ago so can move there as a backup.

OzakIOne commented 5 years ago

It's not because you have an adblocker that artist don't get revenue, of course there will be a decrease but listening to a song for 30 seconds gives him some money

i1u5 commented 5 years ago

Been a month, haven't noticed anything and no one's account from my friends is banned.

raven0034 commented 5 years ago

It's that easy to create a new account that the only concern should really be backing up your playlists, so this isn't really a massive issue anyway.