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Spotify cracks down on reverse-engineering and ad blocking
- kingosticks 8y agoUser guidelines updated regarding reverse-engineering: > If applicable law allows you to decompile any part of the Spotify Service or the Content where required in order to obtain the information necessary to create an independent program that can be operated with the Spotify Service or with another program, the information you obtain from such activities (a) may only be used for the foregoing objective, (b) may not be disclosed or communicated without Spotify’s prior written consent to any third party to whom it is not necessary to disclose or communicate in order to achieve that objective, and (c) may not be used to create any software or service that is substantially similar in its expression to any part of the Spotify Service or the Content. And ad blocking: > circumventing or blocking advertisements in the Spotify Service, or creating or distributing tools designed to block advertisements in the Spotify Service
- _Schizotypy 8y agoI wonder if pi-hole blocks their advertisements. Is blocking specific requests network-wide considered to be against their terms?
- kevinherron 8y agoBlocking advertisements when you have a trial version of Spotify is tantamount to stealing. Understandable. I wonder where this leaves me, a paying user, who has blacklisted all outbound connections to ad/tracker hosts.
- ct0 8y agoIt's my opinion that since I pay for internet, and the Spotify service, I have control over what I see, what comes into and out of my network. There is no modification to the app itself, and Spotify's contractual reach should not extend beyond their app.
- anoncake 8y agoBlocking advertisements is never stealing, it's self defence.
- craftoman 8y agoI was blocking ads on my trial version for months without any problem. I was like having the premium without paying it, but one day I found an article about the Spotify debt and how it was growing and then I deeply regretfully switch to premium.