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Comment by the_snooze | Hacker News Reader

>In other circumstances, they make avoidable mistakes, such as deploying confusing user interfaces or choosing greed over customer delight.

This is exactly what got me to stop using Spotify (for their insistence on spamming podcasts on the home screen, when I'm there solely for music) and music streaming as a whole (for my playlists randomly losing songs). Buying the audio files and maintaining them on my own hardware is less BS.

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I think it’s bs that spotify premium still allows ads to be played during podcasts. It’s similar to youtube premium. I’m paying to not have ads, and you still serve me ads. I don’t care that they’re “in roll” or from the creator instead of the platform. That’s a distinction without a difference. Figure it out or I stop paying. And yes, I stopped paying.

That is literally the reason for which I finally canceled Spotify a few years ago. At that point I was accumulating reasons to switch for the last few years but that was the last straw.

I am paying your most expensive subscription and if you would have had a more expensive / premium one I would have paid more explicitly for the service to not include ads anywhere, under any possible curcumstance. Aparently that was impossible.

Never looked back and I should have done the switch years before.

How can they prevent in roll ads? YouTube Premium subscribers still see in roll ads. If you don’t want them, subscribe to the podcasts Patreon and they’ll provide you a custom RSS with no ads.

> I’m paying to not have ads, and you still serve me ads.

Capitalism wins again!

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