Can I turn off the COVID-19 icons on podcasts?

[Mooseroo]

Please allow a switch to turn off the annoying COVID-19 icons on podcasts. I find them visually distracting, and I neither want not need Spotify information about COVID.

Cheers

[Earlfromflorida]

Enough of the fake Covid leftist narratives please.  Had enough.  2 years ago. 

[Pugs01]

Has anyone figured out a way to turn this off? I agree it’s distracting and I’m not looking for medical advice from my podcast / music app. 

[CJ1994]

I submitted a feature request... fell free to post to it so that it might gain some traction with the spotify team! https://community.spotify.com/t5/Idea-Submissions/Desktop-Podcasts-Feature-flag-for-Covid-19-alerts/...

[jagerx9]

I don't get any of my health information from my music platform. Please let me disable this.

[pjraf]

I agree with all these users.  It's patronising and unnecessary.  Worse still, you can accidentally hit one of the popups, reinforcing Spotify's belief that it is a useful feature. I use the browser platform to manage my podcast playlists and listen at home.  I only use the phone app to play the previously-made playlists in my car via Android Auto.  The Covid spam can be selectively blocked in the browser by Adblock.

[Earlfromflorida]

turns out the covid info was government disinformation.

[ripainter]

Spotify can't give up the government Covid propaganda.  Especially annoying to see the banners when everything told to us is being proved to be wrong.

[Pwog]

The Covid **bleep** has jumped the shark...when is Spotify going to eliminate these blue Covid bars, or offer a way to turn them off? Just stupid at this point...

[Pwog]

Haahaa...apparently "**bleep**" is not allowed....ridiculous.