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> Best I'm aware, radios offer unlimited music broadcasting all day long and are doing just fine without subscribers.

Unlimited broadcasting of the same set of songs in rotation that they choose for you. That's supposed to be a huge selling point of the streaming services is to offer a larger selection than what corporate radio limits what's broadcast.




Regardless. If radios can get away with throwing an ad every few songs, why can't Spotify et al?


Because my radio playing an ad does not offer the potential for damaging my computer


How can an audio ad served by Spotify served in between two songs possibly damage your computer?


How would an ad blocker affect those ads? Why be obtuse? Ad blockers run in a browser to block ads from the visited website. Those ads have in the past and currently been known to deliver malicious code to the browser. Spotify is threatening to suspend the accounts of someone protecting their system from this attack vector.




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