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I’ll tldr this without even watching the video:
- Spotify is not paying artists enough / not paying artists at all if streams are under a certain amount; the gist is it’s industry fuckery though at play
- Spotify CEO is funding a military company
- Some people are fed up with music they like being removed from the platform, whether by the artist or otherwise.
- Plus above, increased move to ownership/physical media as people realize continued monthly costs are not worth it.
For me it’s all of these plus the ICE recruitment ads.
…People listen to ads with their music?
If you don’t pay for Spotify Premium, and you don’t have an ad blocker, Spotify Free is riddled with VERY LOUD AND DISRUPTIVE ADS.
I only used Spotify briefly years ago. I had no idea you could actually block the audio ads they send you? That’s pretty cool if so.
It’s surprisingly easy. I use uBlock Origin in Waterfox (Firefox fork). The audio ads still “play”, but silently.
Do you hate brown people?
Do you enjoy cosplaying like a weekend warrior? Then come down to your local ICE office and get paid by following your two passions!I guess… Haven’t heard it.
Excuse me, what?
Haven’t watched it either, but it’s a great list. I’d add
- the embracing of AI slop
- the great algorithm relentlessly pushing the same 10 tracks down my throat in a library with 10000+ songs
don’t forget they gave $250m to Bro Rogan. weird priorities for a music streaming service.
Spotify has also pushed AI music more, as it means they don’t have to pay the artists.
Because Spotify is trash for everyone other than (maybe) its stockholders?
why everybody is leaving “the thing”
look inside
net profit margin doubles
I hate spotify with a passion. Despite this, there are a few reasons I’m still on it:
- Sharing music is trivial (less so now due to link cleaning)
- I love exploring new music and the Discover Weekly feature has been quite effective.
- Flawless Last.FM compatibility.
If anyone has alternative(s) they recommend I’d love to try them out.
Discover Weekly feature has been quite effective.
That used to be me.
I listen mostly to old swing, jazz, etc. It was fine. How can you mess it up?
And now I’m getting damn AI slop, pretending to be 1930’s music.
The ICE ads FINALLY pushed my wife to leave the platform.
Fuck Spotify. I’ve blocked Spotify for anyone connected to our WiFi. Spotify. ChatGPT, Deepseek and other AI shit. And Twitter, Tesla, Spacex and soon also Tiktok. Whtehouse.gov shows .com instead (childish, but brilliant). We have lots of guests all year doing activities and accommodation here. If anyone wants to do this crap, they can do it over their own data.
What alternatives are people using? I switched to Amazons service a while back but didn’t like it at all.
This question deserves better reaponses. If you can’t or don’t want to self host, Tidal and Qobuz are probably the best alternatives. Tidal doesn’t do podcasts though so if you need to replace that as well, take a look at Antenna pod which as a bonus is available on F-Droid.
platforming someone like joe roegan,
paying next to nothing for small music artists, and enshittifying with ads and other things,
Spotify is the only monthly subscription I have.
I’m happy with it.
I mean it’s evil but. You pick your battles I guess.
