How Spotify Silently Updates Itself (And How to Stop It)
Spotify updated itself without my permission. I blocked it. It updated again. I blocked it again. It found a third way. This is the story of reverse-engineering Spotify's three-stage auto-update mechanism on Windows and how to permanently shut it down. I've become so numb Let me briefly give you a bit of background: after Spotify updated its pricing last year, I've reached a point, where I really…