Say goodbye to your Spotify family plan: location will give you away

Spotify is going to make it a little more difficult for all those users who use the family plan to share with friends, and that this way the monthly subscription costs them less.The company wants it to be used only by families,so it is taking steps in this regard. As we can read in The Verge, the music streaming service will use the exact location of the GPS to detect that people who use the family plan live together. This is a measure that was raised last year, but that the company banished from its plans for privacy reasons.

Well, now it's news again, with the difference that this time it will take place. In this way, from now on when we register in this plan we will have to give an address using Google Maps. This information will be reviewed periodically by Google so that there is no possibility of cheating over time. Regarding privacy, an issue that worries us all, from Spotify they have commented that the data will be encrypted. In other words, the location information collected during family plan account creation will only be used by Spotify for this purpose.

The Spotify family plan has a monthly price of 15 euros per month, offering the possibility that 6 members of the same family can have an account to listen to music. To date, the trap was very simple: six acquaintances or friends agreed to pay a proportional part, in this case 2.50 euros per month each, thus saving 7.50 euros every month, since the Spotify Premium service has a monthly cost of 10 euros. As is logical, the company has grown tired of this abusive practice and has chosen to set limits and make sure that, indeed, the family plan is really for families.