Spotify Free Desktop Users Facing Malware-Filled Ads on Mac and Windows

[JosephAW]

I didn't notice anything like that on my Power Mac G5 running Spotify. Maybe it's specific to certain OS X versions

 

[peppespizzapie]

Jesus, that sounds very serious!

Spotify needs to reconsider which kind of ads they allow. Obviously they can't allow anything involving scripts!? The app has to only support static JPEG's, and the JPEG's need to be verified to actually be JPEG's for that matter. If they are blindly trusting ad providers, they are doing it very wrong.

Jesus!! That sounds very much like a campaign from Apple to scare people away from Spotify )
They cant win with their Apple music, so now they "leak" bad info thrue other channels to scare people away from the competition.
This is what the "new" apple is all about. When Steve was still here he would simple ORDER his staff. " Oke were losing from Spotify?? Let's build a new program everyone wants and is 1000 time's better then Spotify!"
But these days, THIS is the tactic.

 

[ErikGrim]

I didn't notice anything like that on my Power Mac G5 running Spotify. Maybe it's specific to certain OS X versions

Like anyone's writing PPC malware in 2016.

 

[rendyr]

I only used Spotify during their 0.99 promotion for three month last year. I cancelled it because I still prefer buying CDs and rip it or just download it from the internet if I can't found it easily near my workplace.

 

[Accipiter]

And people wonder why I install ad blockers on all of my browsers.

No they don't. Nobody wonders that.

Installing an ad blocker is not some kind of crazy "why would you do that" scenario.

Any kind of Ad is malware itself.

No it's not. Ads are not inherently malicious, which is where the "mal" in "malware" comes from.

 

[KALLT]

In terms of what these music services do, I honestly don't think there's a huge difference. When I say AM is the best product, I mean it's the best product (for most people, anyway) on Apple devices by virtue of AM's tight integration with the platform, iTunes Match and especially Siri.

Nothing beats asking Siri to play a song, playlist, artist, top hits of whatever month, year or decade, etc.

I find the Siri aspect of Apple Music overrated. It does an extremely poor job when you ask for particular things, such as songs, albums or playlists. The failure rate is so high that any perceived speed gains are negated. Generic queries will often return the same songs for me. Ask it to ‘play some electronic music’ and it will always start with the same songs.

Spotify has a much better user interface than the Music app. Just to mention one big advantage: you can arrange your playlists however you want. You can move your popular playlists to the top, so that you can get to them quickly from the ‘Your Music’ tab. Apple Music does not offer such a simple function and insists on listing all playlists in alphabetical order, mixing generated playlists with your own. Another advantage: on Spotify you can put any playlist in a folder and put folders where you want. On Apple Music, this is only possible for your own playlists, not the ones you get from Apple Music, and folders are always put at the top, crowding out other playlists.

 

[magicschoolbus]

it's to bad the desktop version of apple music sucks so much

 

[mikegem]

Isn't there a saying; there's no such thing as bad PR?

I think this could qualify as such, not what Spotify wants to be known for

If the malware turns to ransomware rather than simple but bothersome ads, it will definitely be bad publicity. If Spotify can't keep trivial malware off their product, it doesn't look good for their being able to keep the really bad stuff away. Bye, bye Spotify.