Swedish music service Spotify announced the expansion of its work restrictions in Russia. In fact, it will completely block access to itself from the country.
In February 2022, Spotify is one of the first to begin to fulfill the requirements of the Law "On Landing" in Russia, opening the office, which soon closed.
After that, the stage of systematic minimization began. At first, the company stopped selling premium subscriptions to Russians to stop receiving revenues from this market.
Previously paid subscriptions were valid until the deadline. However, it is interesting that the reason for its solution in Spotify called the problems of payment systems. Indeed, the country left Visa, MasterCard, Paypal, but there are also American companies that have been quickly adapted to this in their stores, for example, Epic Games Store:
At the same time, free access with advertising remains in Spotify and listen to music online without the possibility.
In general, some time ago, the service officially did not work in Russia. Domestic users came to it via VPN. Now, not only improved the blocking of such circumstances of restrictions from Russia, but also, in general, a country blocking will appear in the service itself.
The access of Russians to Spotify will fully complete from April 11, 2022. So far, none of the Russian companies expressed the desire to import a music service, realizing that the overseas music directory is an important part of his work.
The main advantage of the service was his recommendation system. Fans of music of any genres received proposals to listen to other tracks that could like them, thereby discovering new interesting artists, which was beneficial and to the musicians themselves.
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At the same time, the most active users of Spotify can be recommended to have time to transfer their playlists. Fortunately, methods and utilities in Russia for this abound. Those who have them are long and huge, possibly when Parsing will have to restore part of the position of the list manually.
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