They know how to manipulate you to do/buy stuff you weren’t looking for. That’s what makes a profit.
It has always been this way (also in tech) because those things are the products of companies (main goal: profit, usually under a sneaky slogan), but it is becoming increasingly invasive. Don’t be evil: think different.
NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Spotify is a prime example of this. There are so many “features” I hate and that no one has asked for, yet shuffle doesn’t even work.
Everytime I start spotify in ny office after listening on my commute, it tries to start playing on my phone since that was playing in my car.
Or when I was still there, Reddit search. Absolutely useless and so fucking smarmy with that stupid doge.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 months ago
What do you mean by “shuffle doesn’t even work”? Please qualify that statement.
businessfish@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
they may be referring to how spotify’s shuffle isn’t a true “shuffle” in that it is biased to things you have listened to more, recently, etc
JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 months ago
That’s been the case for well over a decade going back to some of the earliest iPods. It’s nothing new.
Omniraptor@lemm.ee 6 months ago
pullpush.io is the good reddit search
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 months ago
There’s a weird smart shuffle thing which keeps happening
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Are you talking about that thing where it plays the same exact music usually in the same exact order every time you start a new session
Jon_Servo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think they’re talking about the feature they seem to push hardcore that tries to guess what you want to hear, and then injects it into your playlist