Plan

Premium

Country

Australia

Device

iPhone SE

Operating System

Whatever the current one is

My Question or Issue

Today when I opened the app, I got a notification.  It read, Need a binge-worthy series or new show recommendation?  Turn on push and email notifications to get podcast recommendations.  

I do not want to get spammed with recommendations from some algorithm.  I turned off push notifications because I didn't want to see them, and I do not appreciate in-app notifications whining about it.  I pay for premium, and my understanding is that Premium is not meant to have ads in it, and yet now Spotify is interrupting the experience with ads to convince me to let in more ads.  About an hour later, I got another one, a full-screen ad, asking me to please listen to some audiobooks.  I have just checked my notification settings; half of them are fully off, and the other half are email-only.  

I do not want popups on my phone, ever.  The only notifications that appear on it should be from people I know, not from my music player demanding I spend more time with it.