It's a bug, not a change of policy
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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It’s why I cancelled SiriusXM a while back. I’m paying for the service so atop playing ads. And at the time it was like the same ad over and over. God it was infuriating.
Spotify has ads? I've never paid, I thought it just had to take little breaks after some songs because they were harder to play 🤔
Is that confirmed? My whole family use Spotify and we didn’t have such issue..
I can confirm. I have the family plan and got ads when I was listening earlier today. Contacted support. Got no where. Canceled my subscription.
Confirmed by Spotify that it was a bug and has now been solved. It only applied to Basic users. Basic is the slightly cheaper version of Premium which doesn't include audio books.
~~I'm guessing it impacted some people for there to be a Hacker News (a fairly respectable news outlet) article about it.~~ I was just listening earlier today and didn't have any ads. Same with my wife on her account (family plan).
Edit: wow, I'm a dumbass. Nevermind.
But yeah, I still haven't had any ads after listening all evening while cooking dinner and what kt.
Heads up, Hacker News is a social media site like here or reddit, it's not a news outlet. It's run by Y Combinator, a huge venture capital firm in the SF Bay area, and the users tend to be tech bros or aspiring ones. Many attach their user accounts to their github and professional identity. I think there's only one admin and they tend to be heavy handed.
The commentariat at HN was anti-DEI before anyone knew what "DEI" even was.
Garry Tan, tech [Y Combinator] CEO & campaign donor, wishes death upon San Francisco politicians
Great callout!
I participate in the techtakes community on awful.systems, which is devoted to laughing at tech bro "takes". HN posts and comments are almost too easy as targets for derision and are common topics for meta-discussion of the reprehensible opinions.
I was just trying to have a light touch here. Start with the facts. We can talk about the literal cults spun off from it later.
The site's one of the clearest windows into the myriad and shockingly widespread ghoulish opinions that seem to fester in places that consider themselves important to the tech industry or attract people who think they are.
I really should start keeping a tally on shit like "how many times have I seen eugenics suggested on HN this month".
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Hacker news is not a news outlet. It is a forum/aggregator
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