01 / AdsWorks with Spotify

Block Spotify ads on Windows, automatically

A small desktop app for Windows. It refuses the ad request before Spotify ever receives it, so nothing plays and nothing is skipped - the next track simply starts. No account, no subscription.

Download for WindowsSource
Platform
Windows 10 / 11
Size
30 MB
Account
Not required
Licence
Open source

Then the music, where the ad was.

02 / How it movesThree moves

Spotify asks for an ad

Every ad break starts as a request to Spotify's servers, sent before you hear anything.

The request is refused

Skipper answers that one request with nothing, and lets everything else through untouched.

The next track starts

With no ad to play, Spotify moves on. Nothing is muted and nothing is skipped, because there is nothing there.

Spotify requests an ad, Skipper refuses that request, and the next track starts where the ad break would have been.

03 / The interruption

Every hour, 2.7 minutes of nothing.

That is the part of free Spotify nobody asks for. Skipper takes it back without touching your account and without paying for one.

  1. 01Two ads back to back, right in the middle of an album.
  2. 02The volume jump that wakes up the whole room.
  3. 03The same podcast promo, for the fourth time today.
  4. 04Reaching for the keyboard to mute, then unmute, then mute again.
2.7min of ads per hour
04 / What it does

Four things, done properly.

01

The ad never arrives

Spotify asks its servers for an ad and gets nothing back, so there is no ad to sit through and no gap where it would have been.

02

Banners gone too

The display ads in the app - home banners, takeovers, video overlays - are hidden in the client's own interface.

03

A certificate, and why

Reading which request is an ad means installing a local certificate. It only ever vouches for Spotify's own domains, and uninstalling removes it.

04

Set once, forget

A single executable that sits in the tray, starts with Windows and needs no administrator rights.

05 / How it works

Set it up once.

Step 01

Install it

Setup explains the local certificate it needs, installs it, and asks for nothing else. No administrator rights, no configuration screen.

SpotifyAdsSkipper_Setup.exe · 30 MB
Step 02

Spotify picks it up

If Spotify is open it restarts once, and that is the app taking effect. Afterwards it sits in the tray, starts with Windows and is meant to be forgotten.

Runs in the system tray
Step 03

Stop noticing ads

Spotify asks for an ad and gets nothing back, so the next track starts where the ad break would have been.

No further input needed
06 / In motion

Watch an ad lose.

A dramatisation, not a screen recording. There is nothing to film - the ad is refused before Spotify can play it, so the next track just starts.

Free, Open source, No ads, No account
07 / Download

Get it now

Option A

The installer

Download, run, done. Setup installs a local certificate - the part that lets it tell an ad request apart from your music - then Skipper drops into the tray and stays there.

File
SpotifyAdsSkipper_Setup.exe
Size
30 MB
Requires
Windows 10 or 11, Spotify from spotify.com (not Microsoft Store)
Installs
A certificate for Spotify's domains
Price
Free, forever
Download for Windows
Option B

From source

Clone it and run the Python entry point. Read every line before you trust it - that is the point of open source.

git clone https://github.com/DEV-industry/Spotify-Ads-Skipper.git

pip install pystray Pillow psutil pywin32 cryptography certifi

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Free, Open source, No ads, No account