Spotify sparks outrage after announcing crackdown on family plans Unsplash: @alexbemoreSpotify has come under fire from users after announcing another big crackdown on the use of family plans to give multiple people cheaper accounts. The Spotify family plan grants six premium accounts for the price of \u00a317.99, or $16.99. Considering the equivalent of that in regular accounts would be closer to \u00a360 or $70, it\u2019s only natural that groups of people looking to save money would gravitate towards this plan. However, Spotify has constantly tried to clamp down on people abusing the system, by putting checks in place to make sure the people using the premium accounts really are in the same family. The latest of these checks apparently involves asking members of family plans to send proof that they live at the same address. What\u2019s more, Spotify users are claiming that they\u2019ll be kicked off of the plan within a week if they don\u2019t send confirmation, and that they\u2019d be banned from using another plan for a year if this happens. Spotify family plan users slam new security on account sharing Several users argued that this kind of crackdown would affect actual families using the system, not just the people abusing the cheaper accounts. \u201cWhat if a family member lives away from the family?\u201d One commenter asked. \u201cWhat if they\u2019re a uni student? Spotify what are you doing?\u201d Other viewers suggested that the crackdown would be easy to get around, as Spotify won\u2019t be able to manually check every family is correct: \u201cJust say you all live at the same address. What are they going to do, come around and check?\u201d Last year, Spotify made headlines for hiking the premium price upwards for users in America. It looks like this crackdown is part of a similar trend of refocusing how the site makes money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spotify sparks outrage after announcing crackdown on family plans Unsplash: @alexbemoreSpotify has come under fire from users after announcing another big crackdown on the use of family plans to give multiple people cheaper accounts. The Spotify family plan grants six premium accounts for the price of \u00a317.99, or $16.99. Considering the equivalent of that in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}