The best solution regarding privacy would be to own the hi-fi files directly and then stream them to your devices using software you self host like jellyfin or something.
A quick look at tosdr and exodus privacy and … I guess if you create a separate account for youtube music and maybe use it only on the web browser. Tidal has more trackers than YT music
Bandcamp would be a better (legal) alternative to both. If not that then buy physical cds, or pirate
May I interest you in SoulSeek? Best way to get those sweet, pure FLAC files (or high quality MP3s).
Nicotine+ is a free and open source alternative to the official client.
Lol this is going to sound ridiculous but as someone who is trying to quit smoking and constantly failing, I know for a fact that using a program called Nicotine would 100% water the seeds of addiction in my brain.
Never smoked but I despite the name and consider it a deal breaker
It is a weird choice of name, isn’t it?!
<etc> so tempting to release a product called ‘nicotine’ and wait for the patches. <etc> then i would have a reason to only apply one patch a day. otherwise, i’m going against medical advise.
