As reported by the BDS movement here – Spotify actively Profits from apartheid, genocide, and racist deportations ~

“In October 2025, Spotify users began to hear racist recruitment ads for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as the agency continues to terrorize immigrant communities and those in solidarity with them across the country. Though the ICE ads have reportedly expired, Spotify has refused to change its policies, defending the ads as consistent with their company standards. “

“Spotify’s founder (and CEO until December 2025), Daniel Ek, is the chairman of German military AI company Helsing, and has personally invested his wealth gained from Spotify into the company, helping to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for it to expand.”

Looking for a way to listen to music that doesn’t help fund autonomous killing machines?

There are some great options when it comes to alternatives for listening, and the process of discovering, pirating, purchasing and tuning into radio stations can be a lot of fun and could even lead to you venturing out of that algorhythmic tune bubble you’ve been in

Radio Lives with Vitality

Tuning into your local radio stations can be a beautiful thing, discovering a broad range of music curated by people in your town; there are also diverse online stations to tune into with intentionally curated and mixed selections readily available any time and for any mood.

Some Stations I tune into include

• PBS – https://www.pbsfm.org.au
• HKCR – https://hkcr.live
• Triple R – https://www.rrr.org.au

Take a look at their sites, typically they will have an app available to stream on the go.

Prefer instant classics on the go?

Have favourite albums, like listening to some pop hits, those favourite albums you always return to? There are a range of ways to download music, equally there are range of methods to save, listen, host or share this music aswell. Below will be some resources that may help navigating in this direction.

Sick of getting your taste from an algorithm? Miss the satisfaction of finding a copy of some tunes, or putting aside some money to purchase your music in a way that helps small artists get paid more?

It’s download time.