Comment on "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 10 months ago
People defend intrusive advertising by appealing to some sort of social contract (ie you suffer through these things in order to get Spotify or whatever for free) but it’s not a social contract if the platform holds all the cards
Kinglink@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also we getting Spotify for free, if we’re buying premium.
The problem is you can’t “buy” products any more. Companies see that as interest, and then start to throw additional advertising to see how much they can get away with. Fuck that shit.
They’ve also run almost any way to do it outside of their ecosystems. If I want to listen to happy hardcore music, I have to hope spotify has it, but it’s rare to find that on most playlists, I’d have to go spend thousands of dollars for the same experience that Spotify offers, and that’s to own every track I’m even curious about.
jungekatz@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Well we can always pirate !
ojmcelderry@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Yo ho, yo ho!