

"We detected abnormal activity on the app you are using so we have disabled it," the message reads, according to TorrentFreak. The streaming giant recently started emailing users of these apps with a warning: your account may be banned. Under no circumstances would we normally advise users to go with the latter option, and now there's even more reason to steer clear of hacked Spotify apps.

Or, you can go rouge and download a hacked Spotify app, sign in with your username and password, and listen to the service sans ads, without having to pay. To get rid of the ads, you need a $9.99 monthly Premium subscription. Here's the deal: with a free Spotify account, you can listen to anything in the company's library of more than 30 million songs, but you'll hear ads between tracks. Using an unofficial Spotify app to get premium perks without paying for them? You could soon lose your ability to listen to the service at all.Īccording to TorrentFreak (Opens in a new window), Spotify, which is preparing to go public this spring, is cracking down on users of "hacked apps that remove some of the restrictions placed on free accounts."
