Go to System Preferences → Security & Privacy → Privacy tab → Automation → Enable the check marks next to this application (for Spotify and System Events).

Go to System Preferences → Security & Privacy → Privacy tab → Accessibility → Enable the check mark next to this application.

This requires you to grant this application additional priviledges. You can also use this application to enforce a endless private session. If the Application does not work, follow the steps for enabling a endless private Spotify session. To uninstall the application, you can simply trash MuteSpotifyAds.app. This application is tested from macOS High Sierra ( 10.13.5) to and macOS Catalina ( 10.15.1) with Spotify 1.1.19.480.g7d17e3ce. You need to do this because I don't pay Apple $99 every year.

Download this application from the releases page.

Via homebrew: brew cask install mutespotifyads Therefore, click the ☀︎ in the status bar of your mac (at the top of your screen), and then click ◎ Restart to skip ads.

When you close Spotify this program will also terminate, and thus it no longer has any effect on your battery or CPU.Īs of version 1.5.0 you can also enable a option to automatically skip ads, by restarting Spoitify.

Furthermore it will mute any ads it sees. Instead of running Spotify directly, start this application.

Auto-start Spotify with MuteSpotifyAds or run MuteSpotifyAds at startup.

This application is not in any way affiliated with Spotify. This application is very CPU and power efficient, since it only checks for an ad when a new song gets played. This is a native and efficient macOS application automatically silencing ads on the Spotify desktop app.

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