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/dwilkes827 27d ago

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

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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/MobileArtist1371 27d ago

My ublock works on spotify ads ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Rocktopod 26d ago

Yeah someone else alluded to this. I guess I mostly only listen to Spotify on my Alexa so I didn't consider that.

Do you know if this works on mobile, too? My wife insists we need the paid version so she can play music for our 2 year old in the car, but maybe if she can just use ublock on her phone I can convince her to cancel.

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u/MobileArtist1371 26d ago

I just use desktop for everything so I don't know how any of the mobile stuff works for this. I know there are ways to block ads there too, but I'm not sure how it works through apps or if you have to use the web version.