[smoe]

I switched away from Spotify a couple of years ago because of this, after having been a paying customer for around 10 years.

But I fear all such services will eventually succumb to this, given just how much more lucrative ads can be compared to subscriptions.

[qwerpy]

I did the same, and switched to Apple Music. Soon after that, Apple Music started injecting their F1 movie soundtrack into suggested music for me. There really is no escape from this. They haven't done it since, so at least it's not as bad as what Spotify does. If I come across a good offline music player for iOS I will probably cancel my Apple Music subscription.

[MangoToupe]

Is suggested music not already an ad? Why not just listen to your library?

[RamblingCTO]

That's not an ad and sounds like a you problem. I've never had the F1 soundtrack being played on radio/random and I do listen to a lot of soundtracks.

[hdgvhicv]

Last time I checked the sky tv financials, subscription revenue outweighed advertising revenue about 10:1, is for every £30 subscription they took £3 in adverts.