Is there a Spotify alternative that has no ads?

I pay for Spotify for 7 years or so now and i’m so sick of all the ads. After every update there seems to be an: oops, sorry, you have ads now. Podcasts are filled with ads. I was just listening to a podcast where they shoved in 3 ads mid-sentence. How long until musicians put ads in their songs. I’m just so sick of it.

  • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    That’s not Spotify inserting them, it’s the podcasts.

    The podcast may elect whether or not to include it, but it’s definitely Spotify performing the legwork. That is unless you think it’s a coincidence that I (with my Spotify home address set to Iowa) got an ad from the Iowa HHS on a podcast by a British podcaster.

    • ickplant@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      It’s called dynamic ad insertion, and it’s the podcast hosts choosing to insert ads into their podcasts. I know this because I have a podcast with no ads.

      • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Spotify is giving them that choice. It should say that it won’t run ads for premium users - only free ones.

        • ickplant@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          It’s not Spotify that’s “giving them that choice.” It’s the podcast distributor. For example, I use Red Circle, and I can choose to insert ads through them. Podcasts have the same ads regardless of the platform they are on. It’s not Spotify, it’s the podcasts. I don’t like ads either…

          • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            10 months ago

            How does it give me location specific ads if Spotify isn’t inserting the ad for them?