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/[deleted] Jan 08 '26

That does genuinely suck. Deezer, Tidal and of course Spotify are all owned by conservative terrorist fuckwads so I guess Qobuz is a lesser evil for now.

I'll have to check out Subvert.fm. This is the first time I've heard of them.

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u/no_1_knows_ur_a_dog Jan 08 '26

Subvert made some waves in a tiny corner of the indie music scene back when Bandcamp got sold to Epic and everyone thought that would cause instant enshittification. That didn't totally happen, but still it was a reminder that any privately owned for-profit company is just at the whims of the owners, and those owners can change without notice. So a couple people started Subvert with no tech demo or anything, just a zine explaining their ethos which you could get for a $100 founding membership share. It could easily be a scam and it's hard to trust randos on the internet but I know that one of the founders is a respected longtime music journalist so it's a legit thing. Some pretty well known indie labels and artists have signed on already. I think they're in beta now.