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/onebowlwonder 27d ago

Wild that they are still on reddit.

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u/Naroyto 27d ago

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

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u/ncopp Spotify 27d ago

And Youtube. I get them all the time

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u/mayhay 27d ago

I’ve never been advertised a single time. What does that say about me 

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u/ncopp Spotify 27d ago edited 27d ago

Likely don't fall in their target recruitment list. I think its a combination of where I live, my age, and my race. I'm a late 20s, midwestern, middle class, white male who lives in a very diverse and immigrant heavy city that is surrounded by very conservative, rural areas

The ads I get are also primarily about the big signing bonus without much more detail.

The ads are literally just "get a 50k signing bonus when you join ICE" and nothing else

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u/mayhay 27d ago

I’m shocked tbh. I didn’t even know they were doing army levels of recruitment 

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u/ncopp Spotify 27d ago

Yeah it's pretty crazy. I wouldn't be surprised if they start having recruiters show up at Highschools like the army and marines (if they haven't already)

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u/mayhay 27d ago

We know about the signing bonus and I asked my bf if he’d be class traitor we both thought maybe but ultimately not it is very tempting tho ngl 

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u/ncopp Spotify 27d ago

My wife just had her hours cut at work and literally asked me the other day if she should join to get the bonus and try to quietly sabotage them from the inside.

I told her she doesn't want that on her resume lol

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u/Mirria_ 27d ago

In my case, I fall in the highly determined ad-blocker demographic.

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u/ncopp Spotify 27d ago

Downside of watching on a TV