It turns out that it’s possible to make up to $600 monthly per account this way. ![]() I’m sure this is documented in their API, though. Then log out and see what kind of requests are being sent to Spotify. So someone got control of my Spotify account, and was using it to play their own ‘music’ on repeat to extract royalties from the system. Sign into Spotify on your computer browser and check the network logs in the developer console. But… it’s possible to purchase stolen premium accounts on the black market, making the scheme profitable almost immediately. If each stream is worth $0.007 a click, the fraudster only needs 1,429 streams to make their $10 subscription fee back, at which point additional clicks are pure profit. Months after this happened and I had forgotten all about it, I read this article about Spotify’s royalties model which revealed a motive:Īll a fraudster has to do is set up a fake artist account with fake music, and then they can use bots to generate clicks for their pretend artist. ago Didn’t realize he said that, thanks Sahjot1 2 yr. Since it is not OP's account this won't work. ![]() ago Only works if you have access to the account. ![]() Surely no one hates ads so much that they would hack into someone else’s account to get rid of them rather than paying the monthly fee? You can do it from n/account as well on any computer, just go to the apps section and find the apps section goonie1983 2 yr. But why would anyone want to hack into my Spotify Premium account?
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