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0 pointsLaforet7y ago0 comments

This is going to end badly. What if the ISP or corporate network have their own domain blacklists?

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mrkstu7y ago· 1 in thread

I block advertising as a category at our corporate proxy (it saves about 20% of potential web traffic and about 85% of the vectors of infection,)!

People definitely aren’t going to be happy if they start losing their accounts for listening at work...

ocdtrekkie7y ago

Yeah, corporate filters blocking a number of ad domains is quite common, and a lot of people listen to Spotify at work. This is probably going to go very badly.

joombaga7y ago

Their users would not be in violation of the TOS.

> The following is not permitted for any reason whatsoever:

...

> 10. circumventing or blocking advertisements in the Spotify Service, or creating or distributing tools designed to block advertisements in the Spotify Service;

https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/

The user in this case would not be responsible for the blocking.

holtalanm7y ago

I was thinking that, as well.

Some ISPs blacklist known bad actor ad services, don't they?

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