Somehow I doubt Spotify's advertisers would agree with this fix. If Spotify knows that people fake-listening to streams is a problem[1], then they'd be ill-adv

Somehow I doubt Spotify's advertisers would agree with this fix. If Spotify knows that people fake-listening to streams is a problem[1], then they'd be ill-advised to try to get money from advertisers for those fake listeners. [1] not that I believe this problem will get big enough that Spotify even remotely gives a shit. Their answer was actually pretty excellent: laugh along with the joke, knowing that this is likely not going to start happening a lot.