This is an absurd claim. I use spotify and suffer zero ads. There is no universe where I am anything but a paying user.
People go to extraordinary lengths to rationalize being outrageously cheap.
People go to extraordinary lengths to rationalize being outrageously cheap.
If pay spotify and you listen to metallica, you might not get ads on spotify, but you might get a link to Metallica merchandise on another website.
The GP's claims are nonsense, discounted by the most cursory investigation. Trotting out some tired rhetoric about advertisers being the real customer to explain away an unwillingness to pay the most trivial of amounts is just embarrassing for everyone. It's especially ironic given that so many are both trying to justify not paying for a worthwhile service while also trying to justify ripping off the same service because...ads, or something.