Setup Pihole To Block Spotify Ads
Overview
Here's how to eliminate Spotify's:
- video ads (100%)
- audio ads (majority, but not 100%)
- text ads (majority, but not 100%)
These ads appear on free Spotify account. So by blocking them, you're essentially creating a Spotify Premium account!
Ad-lists that blocks Spotify
- I've only found 1 ad-list that's capable of blocking Spotify ads so far.
- Add link to Spotify
- Source
- Last modified: 2020-06-03
- No of domains: 885
To add to Pihole's Whitelist
We need to Whitelist these domains in Pihole to fix this ad-list.
| Add to Whitelist | Notes | Is present in spotify ad-list? |
|---|---|---|
| googlehosted.l.googleusercontent.com | chrome extensions | yes |
| spclient.wg.spotify.com | spotify music | no |
| apresolve.spotify.com | spotify music | yes |
| dealer.spotify.com | spotify music | yes |
| audio4-fa.scdn.co | spotify music | yes |
| global-dealer-ssl.spotify.com | spotify music | yes |
| open.spotify.com | spotify win app | yes |
| login5.spotify.com | spotify win app | no |
| i.scdn.co | spotify images | yes |
| newjams-images.scdn.co | spotify images | no |
| dailymix-images.scdn.co | spotify images | no |
| lineup-images.scdn.co | spotify images | yes |
| t.scdn.co | spotify images | yes |
| daily-mix.scdn.co | spotify images | yes |
| download.scdn.co | spotify install | yes |
| accounts.spotify.com | spotify site | yes |
To add to Pihole's Blacklist
This Spotify ad-list doesn't block all the needed domains. Here's a few more to add to blacklist:
| Add to Blacklist | Notes |
|---|---|
| audio-sp-sea.spotifycdn.net | spotify |
| scdnco.spotify.map.fastly.net | spotify |
My thoughts
- I'm considering creating my own list (that's forked from the creator's) in order to add the domains I've mentioned above inside.
- That would eliminate the steps of manually adding domains to whitelist/blacklist for anyone else using my ad-list.
Conclusion
