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That's ridiculous. I'd expect all ads added by Spotify to be gone. They can't control the underlying content. I pay for YouTube premium, but the ads the creators put in their videos are still there.

When I watch a streamer on Twitch, they'll advertise. Then, the streamer will upload the video to YouTube. Who is responsible for getting rid of the ad?

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How is it ridiculous? The selling point of paying for a subscription service like Spotify is to remove ads, the free service Spotify offer is otherwise almost identical.

I would expect the creator of the content to remove ads and the ToS to say "Do not upload content that contains advertisements".

I find it fascinating that you're OK to pay for a product and then watch ads on top.

If the ads are being added by the content creator and you don't like that, the solution is to not watch that content creator, not blame a random streaming platform for supplying unadulterated content.

Spotify could require that content creators upload ad-free versions of their podcasts for premium users. This would probably require a significantly higher subscription fee to support much larger payments to the podcast creators.

Podcasts are generally accessed as a syndication service. Except for ones actually contracted by Spotify, like Joe Rogan, they are just importing them from RSS like everyone else.

Yes, this would have to be a new thing which they did.

> They can't control the underlying content.

This is the only place where I would like to see more control from platforms. And I believe they can. Youtube already requires to label video containing paid promotion. They can require to label exact time interval so that it can be auto-skipped (without sponsorblock).

Instead they release one shitty "feature" after another.

How would you feel if they published a remastered song with an ad right in the middle?

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