Block Ads on Spotify

In this guide, I will show you guys how to make Spotify ad-free on Linux machines.

I will recommend to follow the guide, if you have Debian version of Spotify installed

Steps:

1. Download the Debian/Ubuntu version of Spotify, from here
2. Make sure you have following prerequisites:

• Git
• Wget
• tar
• Make
• GCC
• libc headers (e.g. libc-dev on Debian-based distributions)

3. git clone https://github.com/abba23/spotify-adblock-linux.git
4. cd spotify-adblock-linux
5. wget -O cef.tar.bz2 https://cef-builds.spotifycdn.com/cef_binary_88.1.6%2Bg4fe33a1%2Bchromium-88.0.4324.96_linux64_minimal.tar.bz2
6. tar -xf cef.tar.bz2 --wildcards '*/include' --strip-components=1
7. make
8. sudo make install
9. Enjoy, Spotify ad-free

This guide is intended for the free plan users only. Also, the spotify-adblock-linux project has been deprecated in favor of its rewrite in Rust