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@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    WTF is a seedbox?

    I have no trouble listening to unlimited music, it’s literally everywhere.

    Plus it’s not just about owning the album (although I absolutely insist on listening on whichever device I choose). It’s also about paying the artist.

    Sp0tify pays peanuts. When I buy the album from the band’s site or bandcamp they get a hell of a lot more money from me. And I want to support them.

    You cannot support any artist through Spotify.

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      1 year ago

      How I have to torrent cause my isp will cancel service over it.

      If you’re pirating you’re not paying the artist at all. Spotify is better than pirating.

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          1 year ago

          You’re advocating for piracy explicitly

          If you’re going to p1r@te, you don’t have to pay sp0tify to do it…

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            1 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.

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              1 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.

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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.

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                  1 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.