• techtalkf@lemmy.world
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    Printer Ink and paying companies like Google and Spotify, who still collect your data as a paid customer.

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      Paying Spotify and still getting adverts.

      At that point I decided that Spotify wasn’t for me anymore.

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          It’s now been a while since I used Spotify, so no idea what it’s like now. I started to get Spotify inserted adverts when listening to podcasts. After a month or so of getting adverts I stopped my subscription and moved to other sources of audio entertainment.

          I paid for Spotify primarily to get away from adverts, secondly it was more convenient than being on the wavey seas with my parrot, black flag, and wooden leg.

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            It’s weird to me that people use Spotify for podcasts, a free medium established 10-15 years before Spotify even added them as a feature. Why not just use one of the free podcast apps that actually are mature and also designed for podcasts to begin with?

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              I started with podcasts on Spotify because of the exclusivity of JRE. I listened to his podcasts because of the variety of guests, not for him.

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          Yes, visual ads promoting artists, concerts, and merch as well as ads in Spotify owned podcasts like Armchair Expert.