I used to have a premium account. Not any more. I have always been able to listen to music and podcasts, ad free, until the last few weeks. Now almost all the podcasts I listen to have terrible ads inserted by Spotify. Not adverts from the podcaster - i understand those are unavoidable - I am getting the same British ads [for example, Costa coffee - heard that one tooooo many times] at the start of almost every podcast. It's maddening.Since reading other reviews to find out if anyone else had the same problem - I see that Spotify is sponsoring [to the tune of tens of millions of dollars] Joe Rogan. Bonus - at least it keeps him off other platforms. But I don't want to fund his free speech or any company that pays him a fortune for the things he says.I turn to the wisdom of the Martin Niemoller poem, "First they came for the communists." If we don't speak out now for what is right and good, sooner or later there will be no-one decent left to speak up for any of us.
