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Is there a Spotify alternative that has no ads?
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I've been paying for Spotify for about the same length of time and I still haven't heard a single ad placed by Spotify since going Premium. Any ads I've heard in podcasts are like the sponsored segments on a YouTube video; put there by the people making the podcast, not by Spotify and exist in the podcast no matter what source you got it from.
It's weird, I've seen quite a few posts like the OP relatively recently complaining about how Spotify premium suddenly has ads now. Yet I've had a premium subscription for 10 year now (rip my $$$) and have yet to hear a single ad since subbing. Well, unless it's a sponsored segment placed in there by the creator.
Maybe it's because I don't listen to many podcasts? But even when I have, I have literally never heard a Spotify ad. Maybe the specific podcasts I've listened to don't have the "feature" that OP describes.
Maybe it's regional? Maybe it's an error? Maybe OP doesn't recognize ads placed there by the content creator?
Could even be their subscription lapsed and they somehow didn't notice. It has, occasionally, not popped up with the big red banner telling me my payment didn't go through and I only knew something was wrong because I get ads and can't play the exact song I want because I was no longer using Premium.