I will show you how to easily block the servers hosting Spotify ads on your Linux/Mac or Windows machine. This will allow you to listen all day long on a free account without hearing a single ad or being tracked by third party. This trick is very simple, legal and works great.

In order to remove those pesky ads, all we need to do is setup out hosts file to override the DNS for Spotify's ad servers and redirect that traffic to our local machine.  

When the traffic hits out local machine the call will fail and the tracking third party advertising will be skipped.

Instructions and information can be found here: https://blogpirate.net/2017/08/08/how-to-block-those-nasty-ads-in-spotify-app-in-windows-linux-and-osx/

Pi-hole compatible versions can be found here:

Blocklist: https://gist.github.com/captainhook/863b056c16ec7cf93252943e24b4a0fa Whitelist: https://gist.github.com/captainhook/9eb4132d6e58888e37c6bc6c73dd4e60 Bash script to import whitelist: https://gist.github.com/captainhook/f4 Credits to: captainhook