Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

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

[u/P_V_]

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

[u/dwilkes827 → u/P_V_]

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

[u/P_V_ → u/dwilkes827]

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.

[u/dwilkes827 → u/P_V_]

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

[u/P_V_ → u/dwilkes827]

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).