I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a “sponsored recommendation”.

Why am I seeing ads if I’m already paying for the premium plan!? 😑

  • QubaXR@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    In the immortal words of James Stephanie Sterling “corporations don’t just want some money. They want all of the money”

  • rubikcuber@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 years ago

    If you’re not paying you are the product. If you ARE paying you are STILL the product. This is how big tech works.

    • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      2 years ago

      You become the product with name, address, and payment details attached to the account for improved demographic data for them to collect. Win win.

    • jarfil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      But you’re paying for the GOOD recommendations now, not the free bad ones… /s

    • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Basically every computer hardware manufacturer is collecting telemetry and sending it home. If you’re using MacOS or Windows, your OS is doing it aswell

      • essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Or Android, or iOS, or a Chromebook, or whatever other OS you’re using next year, if it isn’t some sort of Linux/UNIX system… and even some of those might not be great, but at least you can find out.

        • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I mean… Android and ChromeOS are Linux underneath. MacOS is… related to Unix. Hang on, I need to look up that lineage…

          Also Lineage.

          Edit: MacOS used/uses the Mach kernel, and uses code “derived from BSD”, vague as Wikipedia is. That could mean it’s a whole copy-paste or that it just borrows ideas from BSD.

          • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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            2 years ago

            MacOS has userland tools from some FreeBSD version (quite obsolete, IIRC). Also there’s a port of bhyve called xhyve for MacOS. Its kernel I wouldn’t expect to have much in common with BSDs.

          • panCatE@lemm.eeEnglish
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            2 years ago

            It has a history in the US anti trust (when the laws really worked)

        • panCatE@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Tbh i have used linux on my home pc for years now and now they are very polished products , except most corporate apps are not there !

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Might I add, I hate the way every user-facing UI has devolved into the Youtube Shorts / TikTok “doomscrolling” swipe-UI now. There seems to be absolutely not a single braincell left in UI development to even consider the actual use case of the interface.

    It’s all just:

    1. Monkey see UI to build.
    2. Moneky see TikTok big.
    3. Monkey do.
  • doggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Yeah, I dropped Spotify when they started plastering my home screen with ads for podcasts that I didn’t want to listen to. If there had even just been a way to hide them after the fact, but no. I guess they really needed to justify the deal with Joe Rogan.

    • ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Any sailor worth his salt needs spend a few seasons earning his sea legs before he can begin to call to claim any understanding of the sea.

      AKA, There is no easy way. It will lots of time and manual labor to find all the individual files in your Playlist.

    • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 years ago

      If you have a shit ton of time and don’t care about mediocre to bad quality for the size, you could do the straightforward 80s way, play and record on “tape” (which can be digital files nowadays).

      If you have any way of exporting to a list, then you might have some luck with some console wizardry and yt-dlp. Essentially “search” each title on youtube and auto-download the audio from the first result and try to fill in the track and artist fields automatically.

    • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I use Bandcamp and usually will wait for the days they give artists 100% of the revenue and buy everything I’ve been waiting on. You get a flac download so you can secure your purchase in case the site shuts down later, but you also have access to streaming.

      • AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Bandcamp is great too! I’ve downloaded everything I’ve bought from there, but one artist deleted their page and now I can’t download what I purchased anymore. That’s the only negative I can think about.

        • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Yeah I get that. That’s why I immediately download all purchases and back them up off site as well.

      • Jackie's Fridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Plus, Bandcamp will also recommend new music and related artists. The recommended artists at the bottom of a band/artists’s page are listed by the artist themselves, so you can pursue music that inspired the music you like.

        • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Yeah and even the front page recommendations are so much better than anything Spotify ever gave me. Bandcamp is how I found one of my all time favorite bands, Zeal & Ardor.