The ads urge listeners to “join the mission to protect America” by becoming U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, but users of the music streaming giant have taken to social media and Spotify’s website to complain, and announce their withdrawal from the audio platform.
Followup – do you know if I should use my VPN when doing this? I have been doing that for torrents for a while, but I wasn’t sure if Spotify, YouTube, or anyone else will reach out with cease and desists like has happened to me with torrents in the past
Also now I’m wondering if the URLs on Spotify identify me if I’m logged in (I have a bunch of music saved in playlists and libraries but I cancelled my subscription so it’s in free mode)
Right now Google is more focused on breaking the library that powers downloading from YouTube (yt-dlp). They haven’t succeeded yet, but that’s definitely an easier path for them than prosecuting piracy.
I doubt Spotify will try to punish you for this since the content isn’t actually being stolen from them directly.
That makes sense. Thank you for this response.
No VPN needed. The media being downloaded is coming from YouTube.
So as far as they know, I’m just playing their music from YT Music my browser in free mode?