Welp, there are methods allowing to get rid of adverts on the free version of Spotify for Android. Wait, but what’s with ad blockers? Are they not going to work on the mobile? Sad, but they are not.
This way Spotify application can determine the actual country of user streaming, and take it as an invitation to play bloody ads between the songs. And the free ones are just as unstable as proxy server options that we’ve covered already.Īnother complication has to do with a device itself - most smartphones have geolocation services turned on. VPN solutions are, often, cross-functional, meaning there are some great VPN apps also for iOS and Android. This can become even harder when trying to block ads in Spotify mobile version. This will also make your connection slower.
And even if you are proficient enough to know how to play with proxy settings, finding a stable working server might be quite a hassle.
While many VPNs have an easy-to-use interface, changing proxy settings on a Mac machine is a manual and time-consuming process. That’s another way how to listen to Spotify without ads at all or with ads in a different language. Just like a VPN does, a proxy connects a Mac through another country server. It’s not perfect, but might still be better to listen to a melodious Italian voice, that our user doesn’t understand, than to another annoying ad from their home country.īeware of the standard VPN limitations though: slower Internet connection, server disruptions, and weird pages opening in another language - these things are not uncommon.
So, an American user, who is sick and tired of the English-speaking Spotify ads, has an opportunity to connect to a server in, let’s say, Italy to consume ads specific to that market. The streaming service has too many different markets, and their ads vary from country to country as well. Virtual Private Network (VPN) applications are designed to connect to a server anywhere in the world, and that’s how someone could make use of Spotify’s global approach. If this is too much hassle, consider getting a good VPN. Such a solution only works for a limited time, as Spotify is constantly changing their ad parameters, and then new host files have to be added again. Why the host files are not listed here? This is a tricky part. Open the host file as administrator and add the necessary contents to it. Once you found them, go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc.
There are samples of host files for blocking Spotify ads scattered all around the Internet and easily googleable. Luckily, Windows is indeed a very flexible OS and it lets users change host files manually in the system. And becomes horrible when another 30-seconds ad kicks in. Comes in handy, when working on a laptop, or throwing a wild house party. The great thing about Spotify is that it allows users to stream music on their PC, not just mobile.