{"id":295250,"date":"2019-02-08T07:33:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T05:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=295250"},"modified":"2019-02-08T07:35:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T05:35:25","slug":"spotify-bans-all-ad-blockers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/295250-spotify-bans-all-ad-blockers.html","title":{"rendered":"Spotify bans all ad-blockers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify has updated its <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotify.com\/us\/legal\/end-user-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Service<\/a><\/strong> to reflect its stance on ad-blockers.<\/p>\n<p>The service&#8217;s new policy now explicitly states that blocking advertisements within Spotify can result in an immediate termination of a user&#8217;s account.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify&#8217;s free service allows users to listen to music without a monthly subscription, but plays advertisements periodically and provides limited account functionality compared to Spotify Premium.<\/p>\n<p>Some Spotify users have used modified accounts and ad-blockers to circumvent the advertisements being played, and Spotify has been cracking down on this activity.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2018, Spotify stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-spotify-advertising\/spotify-says-about-two-million-users-suppressing-ads-without-paying-idUSKBN1GZ1WK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>two million<\/strong><\/a> of its free users blocked advertising.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Spotify respects intellectual property rights and expects you to do the same,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/288766-mtn-musictime-vs-spotify-vs-apple-vs-google-music.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">MTN MusicTime vs Spotify vs Apple vs Google Music<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify has updated its Terms of Service to reflect its stance on ad-blockers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":228599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49317],"tags":[57310,34139,57308,7927],"class_list":["post-295250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-account-termination","tag-ad-blocking","tag-premium","tag-spotify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295254,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295250\/revisions\/295254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}