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How are you people faking location to get a better price for subscriptions? (midwest.social)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Spotify wants me to have a card from said county. I read that you can use PayPal, but they want a phone number from that country.

Any advice?

Edit: I'm aware that there are a lot of solutions to get it for free. I'm aware that I can just download my music.

Currently, I'm running running navidrome for my downloaded music and x manager Spotify for myself.

My wife has an iPhone. I don't want to download her music. But she's paying full price for Spotify.

I also like to listen from my work desktop. I have administrative rights, but it would be really dumb to download something like this to my work machine.

In several countries, I can get Spotify for like $30 dollars a year for 2 people. This price would be worth moving to legal. Especially for her, since she's paying $11 right now

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

What do you want to know? That you can use a VPN to fake your location to get a different price for a subscription? Or which county is currently the best (India has decent prices)? How to get the gift cards that you redeem in the account (Amazon, eneba, ...)?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How to get the gift cards in rupees?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Now that you mention it, my policy from now on is to avoid any Internet service that tries to charge different prices depending on what country it thinks you're in.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Have you considered not Spotify?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Lol. Yes.

I download most of my music, but I haven't gotten a new song in like a year and a half, so I want cheap, desktop something for the once in a while listening.

My wife has an iPhone and pays full price, this is also motivation

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

She can sell the iphone and get an android with the same specs and pay for spotify for a year and have dinner somewhere /s

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Or just use the cracked versions if you have android

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (5 children)

This is what I do. But my wife has an iPhone, and can't.

I also want it on desktop

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I also want it on desktop

Spotify without a paid subscription on FF desktop with uBlock Origin is pretty good. It will start playing random music after a while, but it's not enough to bother me. Just refresh and you can go back to listening to your music.

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