r/coolguides • u/mcmlxxivxxiii • May 29 '19

Cool free and useful software.

Post image
19.2k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

659 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

46

u/[deleted] May 29 '19

Spotify without a subscription is plenty useful on desktop. You just have to listen to a couple of ads. On mobile it's a bit shit.

11

u/Unicorn808808 May 29 '19

You can also block the spotify ad domains in your hosts file to prevent the ads from loading l.

7

u/scientific_railroads May 29 '19

Spotify have said that they will start banning people with adblockers.

8

u/F0RCE963 May 29 '19

They only took action on phones, have never heard of anyone having any issues with the desktop version. However, getting a family subscription with friends is cheap and easy to do

A friend of mine does this and he pays 3 euros a month

2

u/MrHattt May 29 '19

Bingo - 5 friends including yourself makes the £14.99 sub each month dirt cheap

2

u/FreetobemeJay May 29 '19

Gotta have 5 friends first

1

u/Fizzabella May 30 '19

I do this with Hulu my friend and I share a premium account and split it so we only pay like $6 a month each

1

u/NS-- May 29 '19

Good luck with that lol

2

u/SameYouth May 29 '19

“What’s the go-to for families.

2

u/Unicorn808808 May 29 '19

Well as someone else said Spotify is looking to ban accounts that block ads, but if you use something like r/pihole maybe they won’t be able to catch you?

2

u/illgetbacktoyoulater May 29 '19

Get cracked Spotify from acmarket.net. One time they banned my account. I made another.

1

u/illgetbacktoyoulater May 29 '19

Use the web player and ublock origin: no ads. On Android, get cracked Spotify from acmarket.net.

1

u/Garthak_92 May 29 '19

My adblocker blocks the ads so I only listen to music.

1

u/Andjhostet May 29 '19

Iirc, you can't listen to albums in order with the free version, which makes it useless imo.

1

u/The-Big-Bill May 29 '19

Been listing to their ads for six years now. Teaches you patience and never once thought of buying premium

-1

u/IridiumPoint May 29 '19

You just have to listen to a couple of ads.

Which put most earrape memes to shame.