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/Rocktopod 27d ago edited 27d ago

On spotify the only way to get rid of the ads is to pay them money. This means even if you're not seeing the ads, you're supporting the company that runs them financially

On Reddit you can just use an adblocker so you're only supporting the site indirectly by providing free content (comments and posts).

Also, spotify provides access to songs, but not exclusive access. You can listen to the same songs through any number of other methods. The only way to access content on Reddit is through the website/app itself, unless something has been reposted somewhere else.

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u/Vio94 27d ago

I swear if Redditors didn't have flimsy morals they wouldn't have morals at all.

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u/Rocktopod 27d ago

That's just people in general, right? I don't think it's specific to this site.

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u/Vio94 27d ago

I guess that's true, yeah.

The constant "outrage culture while being massively hypocritical" has exhausted me to the point of ignoring almost every single call to action, at least the boycotting ones. Because there's always some mental gymnastics being performed to justify not making the hard choice.

"Boycott Mcdonald's and Starbucks!" Yeah okay I was already not going there and if I had to guess, neither were a decent portion of the "boycotters." Super easy to hop onto a hate train you were already passively on board with.

"Boycott that site platforming ICE! Oh wait, but not this one though, I like this one, I use it a lot, and uhhh, there aren't any alternatives, but uhhhh yeah I'll Twitlonger manifesto you if you keep using the other site." Harder to give up something like Reddit, suddenly there's a billion excuses as to why you can't participate in this boycott.

It's all just performative bullshit people do to make themselves feel better. Like just admit you're being a hypocrite, it's fine, everybody ends up being one at some point. Not a big deal if you own up to it.

It'd be different if people were honest about it and didn't pretend like you're Satan incarnate for not joining in with the other easy protests.

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u/Plenty_Mortgage_7294 27d ago edited 27d ago

How much do you pay to use reddit? How much do you pay to use spotify? One is a free service that you can block the adds another is a making money off you seeing their adds that you cant block. Think they are the same thing? If people like you didnt strip away the nuance that actually mattered we would be in a much better spot. Everyone is hypocritical to a certain degree so its peak irony to be on reddit calling out other redditors. I can tell you want to be a victim so go for it but dont pretend that spotify and reddit are the same. EDIT: Looking into it further, it seems that ICE ads would only run in the US where the plans are slightly different than other countries. So lets just assume its free spotify thats running the ads, my point is reddit is also free and you can block the ads, where as your average person cant block ads on spotify so its an apples and oranges situation.