Comment on Japan anon complains about Google

• NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What do you mean by “shuffle doesn’t even work”? Please qualify that statement.

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    • businessfish@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s been the case for well over a decade going back to some of the earliest iPods. It’s nothing new.

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  • Omniraptor@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    pullpush.io is the good reddit search

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There’s a weird smart shuffle thing which keeps happening

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    • meowMix2525@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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      • Jon_Servo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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• UckyBon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The problem with tech is managers are wearing engineer coats and calling the shots with no true credentials.

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• lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah, tech people nowadays have this attitude with most people, they only show some restraint when they think it’s for other people like them.

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