How do I turn off Spotify Connect?!

[Prestige]

How the hell do I turn it off? It's driving me mad. Living in a city where you have people using Spotify, my iPhone and Mac will regularly automatically connect to other devices. How is it not limited to being on the same wifi network? This is by far one of the dumbest implementations I've seen so far and apparently there's no solution to it. 

Play here?! Continue?! How about I don't give a ****! 

Using offline mode will only prompt you to turn off airplane mode, so you'll never get the rid of that retarded notification. 

[ortolan]

What I really love is when the iPod in my glove compartment suddenly falls silent because it's decided out of the blue that it wants to play over my laptop at home 20 miles away.

I'm assuming Spotify hires nothing but General Assembly graduates as product managers as that's the only explanation that makes any sense for anything being this incredibly terrible.