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Friday Daily Crunch starts right now starting with three big headlines Spotify has acknowledged an

issue that's causing some of its paid premium subscribers to encounter ads when trying to play music

in an ex post published on Thursday by Spotify's

customer service account, the company said it's looking into the problem and linked to its

community website where the issue has been documented by users over the past four weeks. However,

the company clarified to TechCrunch that the current issue has a different cause from the bug that had been

previously reported by users. It's that a small number of users were affected by the problem

and its teams have deployed a fix. The X account has not yet posted that the fix was released

as of the time of writing and is still responding to user complaints by suggesting workarounds, like

logging out and back in. According to user reports on Spotify's site and elsewhere on the web,

premium users who faced the issue became frustrated as they were paying for an ad-free experience,

but were still forced to hear ads. Suggested solutions, like logging out, haven't worked

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