I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a “sponsored recommendation”.

Why am I seeing ads if I’m already paying for the premium plan!? 😑

  • Loom In Essence
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    01 year ago

    I’m advocating using Bandcamp where the artist actually gets paid. Spotify is piracy, and I’m discouraging that.

    Go to bandcamp and buy the actual album.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Yeah, that’s not happening. I can’t afford to pay thousands of dollars a month for music. I’m going to continue using Spotify because at the end of the day it’s not my responsibility to determine how much the artists get paid. There’s a bunch of problems I care about, this isn’t one of them.

      • Loom In Essence
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        1 year ago

        Well at least you’re honest about not caring about the artists.

        Edit: but you could make a point of buying a couple albums per month if you listen to that much music.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I generally buy merch from the small bands I like, and the rest are multimillionaires already.

          While I listen to a wide variety of music, it tends to be popular music from a wide range of times where they’ve already made a lot from it.

          But also, yes, there’s a level of convenience I’m not willing to give up. When an artist pulls their music from Spotify, I tend to just not listen to them, through no fault of their own, but it’s where I listen to everything else.

          I’m trying YouTube music out since it’s theoretically a bit better and I already pay for YouTube premium.