Comment on "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

SCB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But this is a sponsored recommendation. It’s an ad. Will I really like it or do they just want money?

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  • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Only one way to find out. If their algorithms are any good at all, you’ll like it.

    No matter what, artists only seek to be on Spotify to get recognition/listens, so it makes no sense to be upset about this.

    This is the boomeriest shit I’ve seen online in a while.

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not wanting sponsored content on a paid service?

      You sad no one listens to your music or something?

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yep that’s what it is. No one is streaming Cruel Summer - SCB’s version and now I’m sad.

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• RandomStickman@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes. If I want a recommendation I'll ask for it.

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  • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok Boomer lol

    You asked for it when you signed up for an app that is built around recommending you music

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    • brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Signed up for an app that plays the music I tell it to without having to buy every CD. Not recommendations, access to their library.

      If I was on the free version, maybe. But on premium where I am specifically paying NOT to have ads, yea, ads piss me off.

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Except Spotify literally is based around recommending you music, and recommendations appear at the bottom of every playlist. Let your playlist run past it’s end and you’ll be fed recs.

        If you bought something you don’t want, that is specifically advertised as the thing you don’t want, you’re the problem.

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    • RandomStickman@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good thing I'm not on Spotify. Even if I was, I only want rexcemdarions on my terms, like maybe when I check out their recommended lists, not as an ad shoved in my face after hypothetically paying for their service. If not wanting ads, even helpful ones, is wrong I don't want to be right.

      And that's exactly why I buy my music, you're right.

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Congratulations on avoiding this issue by being a smart consumer. OP could learn from ya.

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