How to block/remove Spotify Ads

**Name is Kevin** · 04-04-2018

This method works as long you can access the device's hosts file.

1. Access the hosts file.

Windows = C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
Mac = /private/etc/hosts

2. Open hosts file as admin. If you can't open the hosts file as administrator on Windows, I recommend you use notepad++.
3. Copy the following addresses to your hosts file.

As for Mac just change "0.0.0.0" to "127.0.0.1"

4. Save it (Ctrl + S). Remember not to save it as ".txt",".ics", or other extension, it won't work.

Additional Step for Mac: Close spotify, right click it, select 'Open Package Contents', then navigate to 'Contents/Resources/Apps' and delete 'ad.spa'

**rjdp** · 04-06-2018

This is brilliant, thanks a bunch

**thoughtful** · 04-11-2018

Originally Posted by Name is Kevin

This method works as long you can access the device's hosts file.

1. Access the hosts file.

Windows = C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
Mac = /private/etc/hosts

2. Open hosts file as admin. If you can't open the hosts file as administrator on Windows, I recommend you use notepad++.
3. Copy the following addresses to your hosts file.

As for Mac just change "0.0.0.0" to "127.0.0.1"

4. Save it (Ctrl + S). Remember not to save it as ".txt",".ics", or other extension, it won't work.

Additional Step for Mac: Close spotify, right click it, select 'Open Package Contents', then navigate to 'Contents/Resources/Apps' and delete 'ad.spa'

Would this work with the app? or is it just the desktop application?