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A declaration of intentions? What the closure of the APK tells about Spotify its sudden restrictive turn

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Spotify was founded in 2006 and it has not been until 2024 that has managed to be profitable. He has had gusts with green -green quarter and others in red, but this year has been the year, in capital and bold. This is a great news for the company, undoubtedly, and a tremendous chance that is right now, in full bonanza, when you have decided to stop that … Countless call Spotify modified APK. And that is right now, in this context, it is a small Leave vu of something we have already lived. Spotify what? It is no secret that looking for the right words on the Internet, any user could reach a modified Spotify application. An fully functional and illegitimate app that, in a nutshell, eliminated one of the great restrictions of the Spotify free plan: choose what song to listen. 27 Spotify tricks – Control your whole music like nobody! As every free service user will know, non -subscribers can only listen to music in random. They cannot choose which song reproduce, but choose a list and let the random mode do their own. In addition, only the songs can jump a few times and, of course, they are forced to listen to advertising. The modified APK eliminated advertising, allowed to choose songs and jump the songs as many times as we would like. Spotify benefits and losses | Image: Xataka The end. And if we talk in the past it is because Spotify, abruptly, without prior notice and from one day to another, has decided to take action on the matter. From a stroke, it has made these modified applications stop working. That has caused the users who used them and look for alternatives, thus creating An excellent culture broth for cybercriminals. Spoiler: Download a modified Spotify application is synonymous with potential problems. Leave vu. Obviating that the use of this application breaches the terms and conditions of the service and the user agreement, it is still striking that this decision has been applied overnight. Spotify is in his entire right, there is plenty of saying, but it is the accumulation of situations and the precedents that attracts attention. Streaming platforms, starting with Netflix and then all the others, decided overnight end the shared accounts. The difference is that Netflix did it when it went through a pothole, while Spotify has decided to stop the modified APKs while on the wave crest. Spotify has 675 million users of which 263 million are paying. Surely the impact of the modified APK is minimal, but its blocking is 1) normal and 2) a possible declaration of intentions. Image: Fábio Alves in UNSPLASH What if Spotify is getting serious? Now that Spotify has managed to be profitable, perhaps he is thinking of putting the points on the ís to all those users who violate their service. Using a modified APK is a clear violation of the terms and conditions of use, so it was evident that this was going to happen sooner or later, but there is something else that is a common practice in the service and through which Spotify has only passed on tiptoe. The shared accounts. The melon of shared family accounts has been opened several times, but it has never finished solving. Spotify Let it clear that the family plan is for up to six family members who live in the same direction, but the reality is that the verification system It is easily drawable. Spotify only verifies the introduced address, but does not seem to follow up like the one that does, for example, Netflix. Spotify shared family accounts have long been in the peephole, but their misuse has been passed. At least for now Spotify can surely know without much problem that your “family” of “six members” is distributed between Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Seville and a colleague who is from Erasmus in Brussels although all, for practical purposes, live in the same direction as the administrator. He simply lets him be, and that will be so until Spotify decide to stop being. And maybe that moment is now a little closer being, in any case, a risky movement. Spotify is alone. Especially since Spotify is a service that depends entirely on subscriptions and advertising. Apple Music, Amazon Music or YouTube Music have behind companies that sell and/or offer other more lucrative products or services than the musical product itself. Spotify, however, does not have that support and play with the number of subscribers is more movie. Image | Pexels Although Netflix has been afraid. Although users put themselves on a war on social networks and ink rivers were written about it, The reality is that Netflix has been great His crusade against shared accounts and the free plan with advertising. 55% of the new highs bet on the cheap plan with ads and the end of shared accounts have made the platform reach 300 million subscribers. Perhaps the end of the modified APK is the beginning of a new stage in Spotify. One in which shared accounts are with relatives, and with no one; one with high definition sound (plan that does not finish arriving) and one in which, finally, streaming music is profitable. Or maybe not, but the background is what they are. Cover image | Cottonbro Studio In Xataka | The great surprise of the Pódcast is not that people are listening to them. Is that he is seeing them

This tells us the DGT about getting the card without a teacher

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The DGT studies changing the self -school system and adapting to the United States. You may have read similar information in recent days. But, the truth is that the DGT has not proposed anything and the decision is not in its hands. So what is happening? There is nothing new. And there is neither date for possible changes nor a road map on it. That is what the DGT has answered to questions from Xataka. The origin of a possible change in access to the driving card is in a proposition that It is debating Europewhere it seeks to facilitate access to cars to a greater number of drivers. This is the last case but it is something that is discussed For almost a decade. That proposal, as we say, continues to debate and would have to continue passing filters that can mold it. That is, it is possible that Europe approaches its way of accessing the driving license to the United States. Or may not. Determined the final text, it would have to be voted and, subsequently, issue a directive that would force compliance. Only in that case. From traffic they also insist that only in the event that the directive was issued, the way to adapt these new demands to the Spanish environment would be sought. However, there is no clear proposal on the table since the text could leave in the hands of the member states Major or lesser wide sleeve to adapt the new reality to its regulations. Taking advantage of the Words of the Interior MinisterFernando Grande-Marlaska, who recently said that the possibility was being valued, some media and users on social networks have raised this whole issue to the news category, noting that the DGT would be behind a change in the system. The CNMC. Grande-Marlaska responses arrived in relation to a report presented by the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC), who bet on opening the hand with the requirements asked for self -schools and turn to a “tutoring” system where a driver can supervise the driving skills of an applicant before facing the exam. They propose, for example, that “the accompanied practices would be compatible with a possible maintenance of mandatory training obligations in self -schools if necessary, for example, establishing a minimum of classes in self -school before the driving accompanied.” A fire. In spite of everything, this report has caused a fire among the self -schools that consider “a danger to road safety” the proposals presented by the CNMC. Álvaro Llamas, president of the National Auto School Association (Anaes) wondered the following: If the objective is to improve the tormation of the applicants, we do not understand that any citizen is considered, with experience, but without training skills (…) and less in a vehicle without double pedal. If there is a sinister, who of the two is going to lace responsible? Who, who will have the tools and control to avoid it? And who guarantees that this tutor will not transfer the applicant for his bad habits and customs at the wheel? What happens in the United States? Depending on the State, Things are slightly different In each place in the country. However, in general, we can say that in the United States it is possible to drive from the age of 14 or 16 (depending on the place) accompanied by a tutor. This tutor offers his experience and warns the future driver. When he feels prepared, he goes to take the exam to obtain a license that will allow him to drive without being accompanied. Step by step. In addition to this change, in Spain the possibility of introduce license B1. This is already active in some countries Of our environment and would allow a 16 -year -old adolescent to access vehicles that do not exceed 90 km/h, a mass that does not exceed 450 kg and a power that does not exceed 20 hp. Measure defenders indicate that it is an evolution of the AM license, which is available since the age of 15 and allows conducting known as “Cars without a card”. They point out that the driver will be more familiar when he can take a license B, which has no power or maximum speed limit and can weigh up to 3,500 kg. Photo | Bas Peperzak In Xataka | DGT points: how they work, how to consult and how to recover them

A Catalan tells his most northern city experience in the world

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He Svalbard archipelago It is the most northern place in Europe. It is a huge ice cream far away above the Arctic Circle where about 2,500 people They are officially forbidden to die. There, right there, there is a Catalan. A Catalan? Indeed. Born in Sant Cugat del Vallès 29 years ago, Nil Rodés It has become the head engine of the Department of Geology of the University Center of the Svalbard Islands. And just being Interviewed in Via Lliure de Rac1 where it gives details about how it is to live very (but very) to the north of the polar circle. “A few months ago it is night,” Rodés said. “Between eleven and one, we now have a blue light (like the end of the day) and, for the month of March, there will be a sun.” It does not carry it very well and, in fact, the Catalan engineer takes advantage of the months of greater darkness to go outside the island. Of course, the doubt of whether “is something related to the Mediterranean blood” always because, in the five years he has been living in the north, he has met many people who worship the darkness “deep of the Arctic Night. An island without indigenous … There are no native peoples of the islands because it is too north. And the first stable inhabitants arrived with the mining companies that began to exploit the coal of the islands at the end of the 19th and early twentieth. Before that, there were only small fishermen bases that were used sporadically. The truth is that, anyway, there are not many natives in strict sense. It is prohibited to be born in the islands. When an advanced stage of pregnancy is reached, mothers have to go to Norway to give birth safely. In the same way, It is forbidden to die (and be buried) on the island. Except for cases of accidental deaths, no one dies there. … but with many bears. There are about 3,000 bears in the region compared to 2,500 people. 300 of those animals live on the main island (and that means that whenever you leave the settlement you have to be armed with rifles or guns of Bengal). In fact, there is a traffic signal in which the area is indicated in from which the safety of individuals depends on them same. And what does a “chief engineer” do on such an island? A good part of the activity of the islands has to see with education and research of all kinds (from questions related to climate or geology to studies on fauna and conservation of ecosystems). Do not forget that The “end of the end of the world” is right there. Rodés’s work has to do with the logistics and safety of all projects linked to geological research. As I say, the villages themselves are safe areas, but beyond those limits any unforeseen can be critical. To the limit of the impossible. According to Rodésthe site must really be overwhelming. A place where in winter it is not clear what is land and what is sea ice (beyond the “llaneza” of the land can give you important clues); and in which, for six months, they can only move with snow motorcycles. In recent years, the Svalbard Islands have only jumped to the media for the problems that the Ukraine War (and the associated sanctions)) created in the relationship between the capital of the islands (Longyearbyen) and a small Russian settlement (Barentsburg) at 50 kilometers. For the rest, it is a small haven of peace in Miad in one of the areas that more is changing due to climate change. Image | Janik Rohland In Xataka | A Spanish scientist in the most inhospitable place on Earth

Antonio Morgado reigns in Castellón in the professional premiere of Marcos Freire, the son of the legend: "My father tells me to suffer a lot"

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All eyes go to the child, of course. Also the attention of the press on the cloudy morning in Castellón, the beginning of the 2025 cycling season. Marcos turns…

Fernando Guerrero tells new details about his retirement

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The renowned Mexican referee Fernando Guerrero decided to tell the reasons why he formally retired of the fields as he is considered one of the great figures of arbitration within the Liga MX and especially in the Aztec nation. During an interview offered for TUDN, the whistler explained that he was no longer being considered by the high command of the Referees Commission of the Mexican Football Federation (FMF), this after stopping receiving matches to dispense justice and subsequently the retirement of their FIFA badges. “I am leaving because it is a matter of dignity, when you are in a place where you are no longer required.”“When they don’t give you matches and explanations, I keep waiting for the answers from the people on the Commission,” Guerrero said. “Sometimes you don’t like a person to express their points of view, but they were the ones who held the reins of Mexican arbitration. They didn’t give me games and they took away my badges… but I’m leaving for dignity,” the whistler added in his statements. Finally, Fernando Guerrero maintained that many of the decisions currently made in the FMF Referees Commission are visceral and are not based on a logical foundation that favors football. “I believe that it is not the correct word for manipulating allocations, they are simply decisions that they make. Sometimes I saw them as very visceral and not thought through, but there are times when they are not prepared to listen to a person talk about situations that can be improved. I have that taste in my mouth of why things cannot be said as they should be, I should have been politically correct and I wasn’t,” he said. “Sometimes your superior doesn’t like it when you speak frankly about what needs to be corrected and I think I should have held on a little longer and found another time to make suggestions about what was happening,” the referee concluded. Keep reading: –Soccer matches today, live: time and TV of what you can see this Thursday, January 23–Mikel Arriola will bet on youth in Mexican soccer by 2025–Gonzalo Pineda comes out in defense of the style of play applied by Atlas

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