# RANT INCOMING

Is anybody else getting tired of paying for services and then being expected to pay again? It's getting to the point now
where I feel like half the subscription services I pay for merely buys me the opportunity to pay them again to get
access to the thing I thought I'd already paid for.

You see it everywhere now. Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, Apple TV. You subscribe to them all in good faith and then when
they release a new Movie or TV Show and _WHAM_, you need to pay them even more money to rent/buy it.

**I'm sick of it.**

This week Spotify have pushed me too far with the double-dipping. I've been a loyal paying customer of Spotify for years
now, as you can see below:

![my premium subscription status](/assets/images/blog/2021/07/27-spotify-1.png)

I've paid for Premium for years on the basis that I can enjoy my content without interruptions from advertisers. For the
longest time they held up their end of the bargain. I have enjoyed many hours of content without hearing from an
advertiser.

Sadly all that changed when they brought the Joe Rogan Experience to the platform. At first, I noticed I was hearing the
odd advert when starting to play certain episodes of the podcast. It seemed to be infrequent, certainly not before every
episode I chose. Then it became every episode. Whilst this did annoy me I tried to ignore it and simply turned down the
volume on my device until the advert had stopped, and I could see that the episode had begun.

Now Spotify has started to interrupt podcasts less than an hour in, to pause the podcast and start playing ads. It
starts with Joe Rogan reading ads himself, and then continues with generic Spotify adverts. The ones the consumers of the 
free product offering are subject to.  The best part, if you close the Spotify app and re-open, it's lost the position 
you were up to and simply says you've finished the episode.

This is no longer a premium service.  This is blatant false advertising, and at the very least you've lost me as a paying 
customer.

![my cancelled subscription status](/assets/images/blog/2021/07/27-spotify-2.png)

I think this might be the first domino to fall.  I'll be reconsidering my other subscriptions in the coming weeks.

SPOTIFY