Wednesday, January 19, 2011

How to get rid of Pandora's raunchy advertisements

I love listening to music on Pandora's free internet radio. Unfortunately, Pandora has also been playing raunchy ads for me lately. I did some searching and found that there are ways you can affect this. Pandora's ads are targeted, so the registration data you provide has an effect on what ads you see and hear.

Suggestions if you don't like the ads you see:

  1. Change your age in the account settings: Click the 'account' link in the upper right corner of the Pandora home page. Then put in a year that makes you appear to be under 18 or over 60. Under 18 will get rid of all ads for liquor, and other adult products as well as the more risqué fashion and fragrance ads. Over 60 won't lose the liquor ads but most everything else will be pretty sedate.

  2. While you're there under your "account settings" page you can also enable the Explicit Content Filter

  3. You can also upgrade to Pandora One at a very modest $36/year to cut out the advertising altogether. You can find the 'upgrade' option in the upper right hand corner of the main page. You can find out more about Pandora One here
I've just changed the settings on my Pandora account today. We'll see how well it works.
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13 comments:

  1. wayneJanuary 1, 2012 at 2:30 PM

    thank you for the info it works

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  2. AnonymousJune 25, 2012 at 5:44 PM

    thnks for the help!

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  3. AnonymousJuly 19, 2012 at 11:45 AM

    Unfortunately this also gets rid of songs with "profanity" in them. My solution is to turn on the filter with my stations that seem to be targeted, such as ambient music, then turning it off for those that don't seem to be, such as hardcore punk.

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  4. Kim KNovember 29, 2012 at 1:53 PM

    Thank you! I changed my age to 14, and that did the trick!

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  5. RobJanuary 5, 2013 at 1:56 PM

    Thank you so much. My phone/Pandora is Bluetoothed to my work speakers. It makes me so ashamed of Pandora for my customers having to hear those crude ads. This is a family oriented store. Those ads were simply unacceptable in every manner.

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  6. FreddyJanuary 23, 2013 at 10:41 AM

    This was really helpful. Thanks!

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  7. HoneyJune 6, 2013 at 1:50 AM

    I personally get tired of hearing the same old music on every station, plus a bunch of commercials. I use www.earbits.com to listen to free online radio. So far, they don't have any commercials or fees. I hope they stay that way.

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  8. Pat OrrNovember 1, 2014 at 3:58 PM

    Thank you very much. Glad to see others were disturbed by the ad content.

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  9. UnknownMarch 16, 2015 at 8:06 AM

    Did the trick! I hated those stupid "Want to meet women in their 50's?" ads that covered the page. Made me look like a tool if somebody walked by and saw that on my scree....

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  10. UnknownMay 10, 2015 at 3:40 PM

    try going under advertising and opting out of everything

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  11. UnknownJuly 14, 2016 at 11:37 AM

    Thank you!

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  12. dgcJuly 26, 2016 at 3:35 PM

    Great ideas. Thanks.

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  13. dgcJuly 26, 2016 at 3:36 PM

    To get rid of the annoying dating services ads, I changed my birthday to 1930. Now all I see is an ad for ice cream. I can live with that! :-)

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