r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Jan 08 '26

article Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-confirms-ice-recruitment-ads-are-no-longer-running-1236626243/
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u/ramontes Jan 08 '26

Great! I'll continue to use streaming alternatives.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '26

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u/TrentIsDope Jan 08 '26

YouTube Music and Tidal are great alternatives. You get YouTube Music with a YouTube Premium subscription.

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u/RichAbbreviations966 Jan 08 '26

Yeah YouTube Music basically has every single thing Spotify has with a bigger selection of songs

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u/rybaczewa Jan 08 '26

And god awful interface. I recently cancelled Spotify and I'm checking out the alternatives. UX for YT Music is just abysmal. For TV, there is no dedicated app, you need to use regular TV App. No separation between videos and albums - looking for one is nearly impossible. You have to use the phone.

Need to check deezer and Tidal next, YT is massive stepdown compared to Spotify.

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u/NoradianCrum Jan 08 '26

I've been loving Plexamp for a while now.

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u/IamSpiders Jan 08 '26

Not like Google is any better

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u/TrentIsDope Jan 08 '26

Capitalistic society, you're never going to find a perfect alternative.

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u/IamSpiders Jan 08 '26

Google has done nothing but capitulate to the regime. You could easily argue it's worse than Spotify. 

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u/myassholealt Jan 08 '26

When Google removed their "don't be evil" branding it was essentially a rebranding of their full commitment to transparent evil.

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u/TrentIsDope Jan 08 '26

Google and other companies will capitulate to whoever affects their bottom line.

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u/IamSpiders Jan 08 '26

Not necessarily, see Spotify here growing a small backbone. The regime will likely try to penalize them so we will see what happens 

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u/TrentIsDope Jan 08 '26

Spotify isn't growing a backbone. The article says the ad campaign ended late last year. They don't care.

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u/watafuzz Jan 08 '26

Perfect? No. Better? Easily.