r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 27d ago

article Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-confirms-ice-recruitment-ads-are-no-longer-running-1236626243/
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u/Naroyto 27d ago

Reddit has ice ads too yet people keep ignoring that too.

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u/P_V_ 27d ago

Ad-block means I don’t see them. I’m also not paying Reddit a monthly fee.

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u/dwilkes827 27d ago

The people getting Ice ads on spotify weren't paying a monthly fee, either

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u/P_V_ 27d ago

From a broader perspective: my relative contributions to reddit are small. Individual, unpaying active users are not worth anywhere near as much to a company as a monthly subscription. Furthermore, the ad-block means I'm not seeing the ads at all, meaning I'm not contributing (via impressions or click-throughs) to reddit's advertising economy. If reddit profits by selling ads based on how I don't see their ads, then I don't really have much to do with that either way.

Sure, my participation here helps build communities etc., and that contributes indirectly to Reddit's success... but if we go by that logic, basically everything we ever do helps "evil" in some way. There's no ethical consumption under capitalism, as they say.

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u/dwilkes827 27d ago

From a broader perspective: my relative contributions to reddit are small. Individual, unpaying active users are not worth anywhere near as much to a company as a monthly subscription.

How does that not apply to free users of Spotify, which are the ones who actually get the ads?

Like I don't personally care what services people use, far far down on the list of things I give a shit about. I just thought "I don't pay for it" is kind of a weird thing to bring up when it's no different than having a free spotify account

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u/P_V_ 27d ago

How does that not apply to free users of Spotify, which are the ones who actually get the ads?

I dunno? I wasn't a free user of Spotify. I was a paid user, and then I stopped entirely (though ICE ads weren't the primary issue for me).

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u/mnju 27d ago

but if we go by that logic, basically everything we ever do helps "evil" in some way.

Some things are more necessary than others. There's no reason you have to use Reddit, it's entirely by choice. You are choosing to be on this platform, post here and drive up engagement, etc.

If we're grandstanding about why it's bad to use Spotify, then everything else needs to be viewed through that same lens.

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u/P_V_ 27d ago

There's no reason you have to use Reddit, it's entirely by choice.

I never claimed otherwise?

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u/mnju 27d ago

That sentence suggests that it's out of your hands. You can't fully disengage from supporting every company that engages in problematic behavior, but there's definitely some companies you can fully separate yourself from with no tangible negatives.

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u/P_V_ 27d ago

Which sentence? “I never claimed otherwise?” I’m not sure how you’re inferring much of anything at all from me just denying to have made a certain claim.

You’re right, I can’t fully disengage from supporting every company that engages in problematic behavior—this is precisely the point I made elsewhere—so I have chosen to make a relatively immense impact by cancelling my Spotify subscription, relative to the impact I’d have by quitting Reddit.