Baked in adds in podcasts etc

Spotify doesn’t put those in, the content creator does. And I suspect they won’t be happy about this tool.

The content creator won’t care but the sponsors might. YouTube has a similar system that skips over “commonly skipped segments” when you’re fast forwarding. In practice it just means you skip past the section of the video where whoever it is reads the sponsors ad copy. It would have gotten skipped anyway, this feature just saves you a few seconds of putzing around trying to find the exact spot where the ad ends.

If the sponsor cares, the content creator soon will, because that sponsor spot is now worth a whole lot less.

I have it, it skips podcast intros and the podcast baked in sponsors.

I would do it anyway with the 15 second button but this is fairly accurate and a single press.

Licking boot.

I have discontinued many subscription based services due to all the price hiking and/or changing features I originally paid for.

Reading headlines like this always reassures me I’ve made the right choice. I used to pay for Amazon Prime (and the other sub channels that had content I enjoyed), Netflix, Spotify, Crave+Sportsnet. All of it replaced by YouTube Premium which I do get most of my money out of with its features including ad free music.

It’s been a couple years since I closed all my premium subscriptions and every so often I’ll get an email asking me to rejoin for 5.99 for 3 months and regular pricing thereafter (or similar price points), which only tells me the price hiking isn’t at all vital, it’s having your credit card information. It’s simple greed.

All of it replaced by YouTube Premium

There’s a german proverb “vom Regen in die Traufe”. From the price-gouging service to the price-gouging service of the ad giant.

So they can say they listened to users when they launch premium super plus without ads. Repeat ad infinitum (pun intended i suppose).

I think Spotify are just leeching them.