Spotifree – Free OS X App for Muting Spotify Ads
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I find no moral justification for using this, even if you can't afford Spotify's paid alternative.
People should be allowed to modify their property, including what runs on their computer.
Try to separate ethics and morality from rights.
Not saying I do think it's morally wrong, just that these are beside the point.
> Spotifree is polling Spotify every .3 seconds to see whether the current track number is 0 (as in all ads). If it is, Spotify is muted for a duration of an ad. When an ad is over, the volume is set to the way it was before.
(the obvious answer would be the advertising company, anyone else or anything else I am not seeing?)
The only one directly losing resources is the ad company, until they get tired of it and stop advertising on Spotify. But Spotify is affordable, so the amount of people that jump through hoops and use these methods is insignificant.
My guess is that you still benefit them more than people who share accounts.
They're not similar.
1) There is no paid alternative to ads I see in Firefox - eg., I can't pay to support the sites I consume, like I can with Spotify.
2) Spotify ads might track my music listening habits. Web ads track everything I visit in a web broswer.
3) Spotify ads do not attempt to exploit my browser privacy features to deanonymize me.
If nobody is seeing ads, nobody is really losing money, Google is just getting it slower.
This is just ridiculous. If you're annoyed by the ads, get a subscription then.
You could argue that you should just get a subscription, but intrusive ads defeat the whole idea of a free version. Might as well remove it, if you're going to make it tedious to use.