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Spotify is about to cost more with a price increase planned for next week

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Spotify has resisted increasing its monthly subscription price for as long as possible. According to the Wall Street Journal, the...

According to the report, Spotify will raise its standard subscription rate by $1 next week, bringing the monthly cost from $9.99 to $10.99.

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- Or you use a good adblocker and then get extremely irritated when you once in a while have to listen to an ad ;)
  
  Yep. Between ad blockers/sponsorblock and my content choices it's actually extremely rare that I encounter any traditional advertising. I don't even know how I used to sit through the old cable TV ads. Now I'm already searching for something else to do 5 seconds in
  
  Sponsorblock for YouTube was a game changer for me. Highly recommend it to everyone.
  
  Yeah, same :D
- If the ads are baked in, just hit the 15s jump button a couple of times until you get back into the podcast. The ones I listen to usually play music during the ads, so when I hear the music is over I know I'm back in the podcast.
  
  Sorry, didn't realize you were referring to promos that Spotify runs for their content. Yeah I guess they don't have a way to turn that off, but it's a simple button to get past.
  Also, fast forwarding really is not a big deal. While I'm out walking my dog and kiddo I just tap my ear buds twice and it fast forwards 15 seconds past the baked in ads in the podcast.
  
  I listen to things in my car a lot where the only forward button on that interface is a skip to the next episode button. I'd have to pull out my phone and open the app on my phone to find the skip forward 15s button.
- You just gotta stop listening to podcasts in Spotify. They’re hands down the worst listening experience for them.
- Pretty sure the only ads on spotify podcasts are the ones built in to the podcast recording, like the audio file includes the ads
  At least i never get any ads from spotify listening to podcasts, unless the people doing the podcast have ads
  
  Ah i see. Idk if i'd call that an ad any more than any other recommended playlist or album on the home page being called an ad
  
  Well yeah, reflecting on what you're saying i think any recommendation on the home page is an ad. But I agree the podcasts are more intrusive, especially if you never listen to them.
  Why don't you just stick to the search or library tab if you don't want the recommendations on the home page? Ideally they'd have an option to set the default tab, but if you don't want any recommendations they're pretty easy to avoid
  
  Sorry, I didn't realize you were just trying to vent. I agree that they should have some kind of option to default to a different tab, or some better solution. They do a lot of shitty and annoying stuff as a company. But also, it's not really a fictional world to just stick to those tabs, it's more like an extra tap once the app opens. You might even be able to set up a tasker thing or something like smart autoclicker on fdroid to immediately switch tabs as soon as the app opens
  
  Do you have any recommendations for alternatives? I remember looking into it a bit ago and not really finding one I liked, but would be interested in making a switch. EDIT: on iOS, if that matters
  
  afaik, podcasts can choose to have ads (I don't mean sponsorships) enabled. most podcasts I listen to have sponsorships, but for example the lateral podcast from tom scott actually has 'real' ads in it, even with premium.
- couldn't agree with you more. it can't be that hard to give us an opt-out of podcasts altogether. there's been an item for that on their feature request forum for as long as podcasts in spotify are a thing
  they just don't want to
- Tbf Spotify produced podcasts don't have the ads baked in so you can skip them almost immediately.

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