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

• SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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      • brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Have you never noticed the “repeat all” option? Which is how I have all my shit play so I don’t get recommendations after my playlist completes.

        This isn’t old man yells at clouds. Having ads and pop ups on a service I fucking pay not to have ads is complete and utter bullshit.

        If I want to go looking for song recommendations I certainly can. But I do not appreciate them placing intrusive ads that take up my entire screen.

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      • detectivesniffles@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        could you explain why you think spotify is built around recommending music moreso than playing music?

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  • RandomStickman@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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