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There are plenty of controversies surrounding Spotify, but what really made me cancel my subscription was the fact that they ran recruitment ads for ICE. Boycott Spotify!
Feels like all these companies to boycott are ones I wasn't using anyway..
When I deleted the few big tech accounts I had, I answered those questions, when asked, saying that I loved the service and that I would probably go back to them. If we all did that, we would leave them very confused and less likely to make mitigation strategies lol
I was considering writing something similar. Along the lines of, "I love your service but I can't in good conscience continue to give money to a company y that partners with such morally bankrupt organizations."
I always select other and type in a minus sign or something. I am not doing unpaid labor of highlighting what's wrong with YOUR publicly traded for-profit corporation to help YOU earn more money by screwing us over. It's just not fair to help out a corporation for free that would never help out you for free, and would actually do all the agressive capitalist tactics in the book to extract more from you.
And that's if any of them even care to read this feedback, since they only care about shareholders' feedback nowadays, not UX. Otherwise we wouldn't have enshittification.
I am still happy to help out for free if it's a non-profit or privately owned company, and/or helpful, or a FOSS project. They deserve that stuff.
I have boycotted them from day one and nobody has come to my house and deleted all my MP3's. When you look long term, streaming will always be a bad deal unless you are willing to treat it like a rental at best.
Well, I like streaming. From my self hosted navidrome.
That deserves a fist bump! It ain't the technology it is how it is used that matters.
I ran into a super progressive feminist a bit ago who used Spotify. She was gen X. Life is weird.
So, is she single or...?
Its hard for me to boycott anything since I don't really use anything not necessary for getting by.
they need a "not happening"/"the damage has been done" option for how likely to subscribe again
I cancelled my subscription because it had become a shit product well before all this stuff started coming out
I pulled my music from Spotify some time ago for this very reason.
Ive never been a fan of paying for music.
Honestly, I stopped paying for Spotify because Apple Music gave me 6 months for free (it was a Black Friday promo). I figured, worst case scenario, I port my account (AM imported all my Spotify stuff), I get 6 months free, I cancel, I start paying Spotify again. I save $60. Not bad. Well, Apple Music had the Japanese music I was downloading off YouTube and painfully sideloading into Spotify. So I liked that. Plus, if I have an album that's not on Apple Music, I just drop the album on Music (the app on my Mac) and it just adds it... just for me, though. Same conditions as the Spotify feature, just much easier to do. (Apparently it's pretty easy on Windows, too.)
Then Spotify went and jacked up their prices and gave millions to Joe Rogan, who was working as Trump's mouthpiece. That and Apple Music supporting Japanese rock made me stick with Apple Music. To be fair, Spotify has since caught up with Apple Music for Japanese music. I think Spotify is still a little better for music discovery, but Apple ain't bad. I think both of them push more rap and pop, probably because it's cheaper for them to stream to you. If you like rock music, Spotify pushes back against you less than Apple Music does, but Apple will also eventually open up and start recommending rock... alongside pop and rap you don't care about (or at least I generally don't and still see it). Now Apple Music does the Super Bowl halftime show, so they pushed Bad Bunny last year, and Jay-Z this year. I don't mind them but I shouldn't be recommended their stuff... except that it makes Apple more money.
Also, I was paying Spotify for a family plan, and Apple now. My wife never used Spotify, only used Pandora — on her Android phone. Once I switched to Apple Music, she started using that (because it's on Android). That means something to me. Like if we go to something else (like Qobuz is a popular alternative now), maybe she won't use it as much. I don't know why, as a loyal Android user, she likes the Apple Music app so much more than the Spotify app, but she does and that's what we pay for.
How dare they invest into oppression against the precious American people, don't they know that oppression is only for brown intervention abroad?
Yeah that was what finally got me to dump them and switch to another service
Come on, all 500 of us.
Oh sorry, this post is over 4 hrs old.
Nevermind.
Investing in Helsing is bad? What the fuck.
That said, I switched from Qobuz to Spotify when Qobuz fucked up the only Linux client out there. Spotify has easily the best Linux support of all the streaming services, and it has a pretty decent selection of audiobooks too.
Does anyone have experience migrating a Spotify family plan to Deezer?
Yes. I migrated my wife's Spotify to the Deez a couple of weeks ago and it was very easy. Over 1000 favorites and a ton of playlists. Only a few tracks weren't in their catalog, like maybe 10 or so.
Also note that if you are subscribed to some other persons playlist it will create it but obviously any further updates in the Spotify playlist won't sync to that anymore. They become your owned playlists in Deezer.
Lolz. Imagine paying for this dogshit to begin with.