mrdude wrote:Thing wrote:mrdude wrote:
Spotify app contains something called orbit service, this sends a lot of data about your device to the Spotify servers, unless you send that data - Spotify won't let you connect to the service so it needs to be sent. Mostly that part of the app is coded in C and stored as a lib inside the app. Currently some spoofed data is sent to the server, but Spotify can check all data sent to their server - no matter if it's spoofed or not. If they look at the logs from your account and check the data your device has sent, they can search for certain things and decide you're using a cracked app on your account and ban that + your device.
The last ban wave, got device info from your android device and banned the device rather than your account - so we just spoofed data was being send from a different device instead of yours - that way you could use your old account, now spotify is just banning accounts, rather than devices - so back up your playlists and use burner accounts, that way it doesn't matter if your account gets banned as you can just make a new one. Device spoofing is trivial and easily patched.
You can backup/move your playlists for free here:
https://www.tunemymusic.com/
Thats interesting! Thanks for the breakdown!