This project uses a Man-In-The-Middle proxy to strip all ad-related requests from the Spotify desktop application. This should work for all major operating systems, but if you are using Linux, I would advise you to use this instead.
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Open desktop Spotify, open the dropdown from the top-right, and open settings. Scroll all the way down settings and find "Proxy" (you may need to look under Advanced Settings).
Configure it as shown:
Run the following commands in terminal to clone and install.
> git clone https://github.com/AnanthVivekanand/spotify-adblock.git && cd spotify-adblock
...
> npm i
Then start the proxy by running node mitm.js, which allows it to generate some certificates. Then, trust the
root certificate at certs/certs/ca.crt
On MacOS, you can trust the root certficate with one command: sudo security add-trusted-cert -d -r trustRoot -k /Library/Keychains/System.keychain certs/certs/ca.crt
After trusting, run node mitm.js to start the proxy again. You should see something similar to the image below.
mitm.js uses a Man-In-The-Middle proxy to decrypt SSL connections and filter out ad-related URLs and domains. All Spotify requests are routed through a locally hosted proxy, which evaluates every request against the allow-list (src/utils/whitelist-mitm.ts) and block-list (src/utils/blacklist-mitm.ts). On first run, mitm.js generates a root Certificate Authority (CA) that must be trusted by your OS for the proxy to function.
Note: The simpler "domain-filter" flow (filter-domains.js) has been removed from the main branch. If you still need it you can check out the last commit that contains it: https://github.com/AnanthVivekanand/spotify-adblock/commit/d2b6397369adc7607084a29abfca5dcde067adc4 .
To build an image for the MITM proxy, simply run npm run docker-mitm, and then create a container binding the port 8082 and the folder /usr/src/app/certs to the host to get access to the certificates.
The port 8082 is exposed by Docker for easier setup using a reverse-proxy.
For example:
docker run -d --name=Spotify-adblock --volume=/opt/spotify-adblock/certs:/usr/src/app/certs -p 8082:8082 --restart=always spotify-adblock:latest
,where /opt/spotify-adblock/certs is the path on the host machine where you will find the certificates you need to import.