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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ads aren't even for anything. It was just really patronising ads for Spotify Premium.

Their business model is genuinely to just annoy you into paying.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It only annoyed me into stopping using their service

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You either pay or you leave. Spotify wins, in both cases

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

OR you get an adblocker

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They were so much more expensive than Pandora when I tried them out and the free tier was too awful to want to reward them with my money, so I did pay but it went to a competitor. Their music recommendations were terrible compared to Pandora, too.

I don't use Pandora now though, they got bought by SiriusXM who I will never pay again after they made cancelation such a difficult process.