It's fascinating how Spotify has changed the way we consume music in record time. The possibility of having all the songs you want from your mobile, computer, tablet or even television, has made it strange to listen to only one album by an artist or group. Now, with its IPO, the streaming music company fights against those who use unofficial applications to avoid paying for the premium subscription.
A couple of months ago, Spotify announced that some 2 million users were hacking their service using modified applications. They carried out a cleanup of accounts, in which they blocked those that were detected using modified applications and could not be used until the official version of Spotify Premium Free APK was installed.
Given the enormous number of users who use this type of application, it gave us to think about this community willing to use modified applications, without knowing what has been touched and with the possibility that Spotify closes your account. Okay, let's try it ourselves.
With just 5 minutes of searching on Google, Reddit or forums dedicated to this type of hacked programs, we found a hacked version of Spotify , ready to be used without limitations.
You only need an Android mobile, a free Spotify account that you can create with any email and know that you are installing a program that could be installing malware on your mobile. In our case, we have tested it on a clean mobile, without personal data and with accounts that, if infected, nothing would happen.
After a month using this application and without updating it, although new versions have been coming out, you can enjoy an experience similar to Spotify Premium, but without paying a single penny.
Listen to music with mobile networks, without advertising , play any song, increase the quality of the reproduction to the highest quality ... All the options of a paid account available, except for downloading songs.
If there is something surprising, it is that it is becoming easier to find these applications. YouTube is full of videos that teach you step by step how to download and install them. In the forums, maybe the only problem you may have is that most of them are in English, but still easy to understand to download the files.
Spotify runs, but hackers are faster
It is the story of any medium-sized company that wants to offer a quality service and that for this it must charge, the community of hackers willing to investigate every bit of the application in search of manipulating it.
Spotify is worth every penny it costs, but there are many people who are unwilling or unable to pay and end up searching through dozens of videos and forums whose every click is measured to show you ads of dubious quality or fool you with infected applications.
Every time we find a leaked database with usernames and passwords, it is partly the fault of these types of applications that, depending on their ability, can manage to send this type of data to a server.
Even so, there is a large community dedicated to these types of applications. We have come across a couple of forums where these types of applications are updated every week and even pass the antimalware filters .
One of the most downloaded Spotify modified programs shows suspicions in Virustotal, an online antivirus from Google that analyzes millions of files. Even so, most of the filters say that you don't have any malware installed.