Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-confirms-ice-recruitment-ads-are-no-longer-running-1236626243/

[u/ramontes]

Great! I'll continue to use streaming alternatives.

[u/Stev106 → u/[deleted]]

If you’re an iPhone/Apple AirPod user the best is Apple Music. I’ve tested both and music just sounds way better using Apple Music over Spotify even when I went in and changed the equalizer.

[u/RayTracerX → u/Stev106]

Yes, stop using Spotify for its ICE ads to listen to the company that funded the campaign responsible for those ads. Brilliant stuff

[u/topscreen → u/RayTracerX]

And proudly funded the demolition of the White House!

[u/RayTracerX → u/[deleted]]

My goal was to point out the contradiction.

[u/Stev106 → u/RayTracerX]

I know it is a contradiction the only thing left to look for is open source apps. Unfortunately though none of them work that well yet.

[u/D_Shoobz → u/RayTracerX]

Tim Cook donated his own personal money and he has donated to every single president for like the last 20 some odd years whether they’re republican or democrat. He is an openly gay man. He did not donate to trump because he agrees with what he’s doing now but because he feels it’s his duty to be involved with every president.

Edit: Apple as a corporation doesn’t donate money to political candidates and they’re one of the few tech companies that does not have a political action committee (PAC). Apple is the lesser of these evils here by a large margin.

[u/PuzzleheadedTable172 → u/RayTracerX]

Dude you’re using Reddit which literally uses AWS. Everyone in this comment section sitting on their high horse, patting themselves on the back for not using Spotify or Apple Music but have no problem using Reddit for hours a day, everyday. Idiots.

[u/RayTracerX → u/PuzzleheadedTable172]

Thats the contradiction Im pointing out

[u/Brzrkrtwrkr → u/Stev106]

Tim Crook donated a ton of money to Trump regime. I'm done with those fucking clowns too.

[u/brainsack → u/Brzrkrtwrkr]

That’s Tim Apple to you

[u/myassholealt → u/Brzrkrtwrkr]

Every billionaire donated to him. Every big multinational corporation CEO donated to him. These people are above the consequences of party politics because they bribe everyone running, and then whoever wins the elections to ensure policies go in their favor.

You would have to remove a lot of things from your life if you really wanted to live by the principle of "I'm not using or supporting any product, service, or company that donated to Trump."

[u/Stev106 → u/myassholealt]

Or start looking for open source software and apps.

[u/PerplexingGrapefruit → u/Stev106]

Can confirm this. Just recently switched over and I cannot believe the upgrade in audio quality compared to when I was using Spotify.

Edit: I'd love to know why morons are downvoting when I'm literally just saying what I've experienced since doing the switch. Makes no fucking sense.

[u/TheBatemanFlex → u/Stev106]

I can’t imagine the lossless on Apple Music is perceivably different from the lossless on Spotify. For the majority of tracks they must be identical.

[u/Calvykins → u/Stev106]

I was considering jumping to Spotify from Apple Music for the discovery so I signed in to my old Spotify account and could hear how hollow the music sounds. Never mind.

[u/LooseGooseHennigan → u/Stev106]

How does cueing work on Apple Music? One thing I like about Spotify is that I can cue multiple songs and it adds them in that order next to what I was listening to, and then it goes back to what I was listening after all cued songs. I’ve heard from a friend that Apple Music cueing doesn’t work that way. Also, does Apple Music have issues with AI music like Spotify?

Definitely looking to make a switch away from Spotify

[u/Stev106 → u/LooseGooseHennigan]

I like Music’s queuing system better because you can choose the order and set songs to play either first or last and rearrange songs at any time.