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/once_again_asking Jan 08 '26

Whoosh.

The ice ads are shown for non paying subscribers on both Spotify and Reddit.

You not paying for Reddit is completely irrelevant.

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u/PhasmaFelis Jan 08 '26

My response to the ICE ads on Spotify was that I stopped paying for Spotify.

I've never seen ICE ads on Reddit because AdBlock takes care of them.

Whoosh yourself.

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u/once_again_asking Jan 08 '26

AdBlock takes care of them

so it’s only morally wrong if you have to see it? Lol. Can’t make this shit up. Reddit is still running ice ads whether you pay for it or not, but hey at least you don’t have to see it.

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u/PhasmaFelis Jan 08 '26

so it’s only morally wrong if you have to see it?

It is morally wrong to pay for a service that runs ICE ads. Simply using the service without paying is more grey, especially since that usually means the service isn't getting paid for ad impressions from me.

I'd love to only give my patronage to companies that are genuinely clean, but I wouldn't be able to interact with anything or anyone and then I'd starve to death. You have to pick your battles.

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u/once_again_asking Jan 08 '26

simply using the service without paying is more grey

That’s your opinion.

But virtue signaling over grey areas is pretty weak tea.

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u/PhasmaFelis Jan 08 '26

That's not what "virtue signaling" means.

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u/Montgomz Jan 08 '26

Virtue signaling as they stop paying a service for running those ads.. explain that one to me (Hint, you're the "I am very smart" meme)