Spotifree
1.6.5
Overview
Spotifree automatically mutes ads on Spotify. Spotifree sits in your menu bar, mutes Spotify whenever an ad plays, and unmutes it when the ad is over.
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Version 1.6.5:
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App requirements:
- Intel 64
- Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later
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Here's the catch... If advertisers know their ads are not going to break through to the intended audience, why should they invest on them? Can you figure the logic now? Would you invest on Google Ads if those ads would add nothing to your business?
I'm not saying the app is bad or something, but I feel the purpose is wrong. And where should we draw the line then? Agreeing to your logic it would escalate pretty quickly. Say one builds an app to sniff your e-banking account , so to be able to steal money from it and publish on macupdate. It would be a perfectly functional app and so worthy 5 stars but... what the hell bro.
Spotify helps revolutionize the music industry and most important fight against the majors who'd like to impose crazy pricing schemes. I remember the days when a single album would cost me €30.00 If you don't like ads you can pay for a subscription which looks pretty cheap considering the offering. If you don't like spotify then help it fail by considering an alterative business, but... screwing their business model is mostly like stealing to me.
That said, your position does not weaken my opinion so far in any way.
This app just helps automate the process of what I would do with ads anywhere: mute them.
Furthermore, the plethora of web ad-blockers out there do exactly what this app does: filter content. Has that stopped advertisers from spending millions of dollars with Google? No, because it's a small subset of people who actually take the time to install something like this or an ad-blocker.
Think harder.
"How is not listening to an ad (not ilegal) even remotely comparable to an app that intercepts private data (illegal)?" I didn't say that. I said "Agreeing to your logic it would escalate pretty quickly..." Please read again.
"This app just helps automate the process of what I would do with ads anywhere: mute them." That's precisely why spotify did make a paid account for: keep you from the hassle of manual muting... and then some. I think it's called user experience somewhere.
"Furthermore, the plethora of web ad-blockers out there do exactly what this app does: filter content." You don't pay to see Google ads or Facebook ads or whatever, because... as someone told already: "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product." It's just plain different, just you don't get it.
"Think harder." Kiddo ^_^ please stop typing, plug your earbuds and just keep listening to your music.
It's like antibiotics... they are good agains certain kind of bacteria, but use it everywhere and they won't make a difference anymore (well in long run bacteria will become pretty worse, but that's a different story).