I've been using the official Spotify Flatpak on Linux for a while, but the ads kept getting more annoying. I tried finding an alternative for BlockTheSpot for Linux. but nothing promising came up. I do know that you can just use a spotify web with firefox and ublock origin, but it just wasn't doing it for me., so I built a small patcher that works directly on the Flatpak install instead, with a single command.
It modifies the app's bundle to:
- Skip audio and video ads entirely
- Remove banner placements
- Hide the "Explore Premium" button in the top bar
Everything is done with string/regex patches on the JS and CSS files inside the xpui.spa archive. It makes a backup first (xpui.spa.bak), so you can always roll back. There's also a dry-run mode to preview changes and a status check to see what's applied.
Or run the uninstall script to clean everything up.
The patches are based on current Spotify versions, but client updates can break them—when that happens, it's usually just a matter of updating the signatures in the code. I've kept it simple so anyone can tweak or contribute.
Repo: https://github.com/Nikish-codes/spotless
If you're running the Flatpak version and try it out, let me know how it goes.
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