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  1. Comment on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers in ~tech

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    Sorry, I thought you were the OP for some reason so I was speaking in Czech terms. You can't. It's basically just in-app content.

    Sorry, I thought you were the OP for some reason so I was speaking in Czech terms.

    You can't. It's basically just in-app content.

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  2. Comment on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers in ~tech

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    Honestly, I don't think you can call that anything else at this price point. I mean, I generally don't like to patronize people about piracy. I downloaded so much shit over the past 15 years that...

    call it stinginess if you so desire

    Honestly, I don't think you can call that anything else at this price point. I mean, I generally don't like to patronize people about piracy. I downloaded so much shit over the past 15 years that I think there's a special place for me in copyright hell. Does that make me a hypocrite? Probably. But it's forty crowns. Have one less beer next time you go out.

    i can easily download songs in high quality from Deezer and store them locally? Plus by doing that i also don't have to spend my monthly traffic mobile fee for nothing.

    With premium, you can save music locally too.

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  3. Comment on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers in ~tech

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    That's completely irrelevant, though. Not to mention Spotify has been bleeding money for years. If they don't enforce these things (because you obviously can't trust people to honor the agreement...

    That's completely irrelevant, though. Not to mention Spotify has been bleeding money for years. If they don't enforce these things (because you obviously can't trust people to honor the agreement they made) they will have to close the shop eventually.

    Hey, so it wasn't actually completely irrelevant - freeloaders playing songs without adverts will eventually ruin the game for everyone else, too.

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  4. Comment on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers in ~tech

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    I understand why you don't like it, but there's plenty of websites that ban you (well, I suppose more like soft-ban you) from viewing their content if you're using an adblocker; so much for the...

    I understand why you don't like it, but there's plenty of websites that ban you (well, I suppose more like soft-ban you) from viewing their content if you're using an adblocker; so much for the precedent.

    Would you prefer if they canceled the free version and became a subscription-only service instead?

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  5. Comment on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers in ~tech

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    There are services that allow you to export your playlists into various forms.

    There are services that allow you to export your playlists into various forms.

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  6. Comment on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers in ~tech

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    I'm guessing you're Czech. The consumer mentality is different, yes, but that's partly because even ten years ago you pretty much had to pirate stuff. Nowadays the situation is different (although...

    I'm guessing you're Czech. The consumer mentality is different, yes, but that's partly because even ten years ago you pretty much had to pirate stuff. Nowadays the situation is different (although paying for Netflix here is still basically a waste of money) and the mentality is slowly changing.

    Obviously, you're still gonna have people over forty downloading dubbed DVD-rips from uloz.to but younger generations have no issues paying the ridiculously small amount of money that Spotify is asking for. Hell, if you get a full family plan (and they don't really enforce the family part, trust me) you'll end up paying somewhere around 40 CZK/person/month. I don't understand why anybody would choose to mess with modded APKs or block ads in the free version instead of just doing that.

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  7. Comment on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers in ~tech

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    Talk about hyperbole. Out of curiosity, how do you feel about people getting banned from online portions of games because of cheating? Isn't that pretty much the same thing?

    it's step to the wrong side, it's step towards Fifteen million merits.

    Talk about hyperbole.

    Out of curiosity, how do you feel about people getting banned from online portions of games because of cheating? Isn't that pretty much the same thing?

    8 votes