I'm done with the free tier
I'm done with the free tier. The ads are relentless, every few songs, same handful of irrelevant ads on repeat. If this is "targeting," it's broken. The part that actually made me write this is that, if you turn the volume down during an ad it pauses (!!!!), then restarts the second you turn it back up. Is this even allowed? That's not an ad-supported service Spotify, that's just hostile. I'm not asking for ad-free. But being literally forced to listen to all ads, which are terrible targeted on top of that, so literally not relevant at all, ads up to an experience that feels designed to wear you down until you pay.