The Unofficial Lovejoy Review of Spotify

I don't pay for the music I stream. Never have. Well, I paid for Spotify Premium for a month a year or so ago but it was gift money and I wanted to see what it was like. For those unfamiliar with the near-ubiquitous music streaming service known as Spotify - the company began in Sweden in 2008 and embarked on this upward curve that would bring it to the United States, where it would eventually compete with giants like Apple and Tidal and ultimately realize its role as a competitor in a battle between gods.

THIS ISN'T NEWS; ADS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOREVER

Either way, I was listening to music on my laptop (the app for your PC is free and allows you to do basically anything you want; I'd recommend it) and while I was opening my main playlist, it appeared that the final three songs at the bottom of my playlist had vanished.

Now, I understand that those songs are the simple dregs and deserve to die, but I believe in class equality and it was rubbing me wrong. The issue was resolved, of course, when I scrolled down a bit and discovered that a banner ad had been blocking the songs in question. Moral of the story: always suspect banner ads of blocking content. This isn't news; ads have been around forever. It's still something to consider.

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