I mean, fuck Spotify and all that, but this one is really the UK government’s doing.
And soon, this shit will come to every country. They’re all drafting laws to mandate real age verification for adult content. The UK is just the first to implement it.
This age-verification bullshit is a fine example of how governments represent their rulers, not their citizens.
LOL I wouldn’t even hesitate. My face data is worth hell of a lot more than their shitty system.
And by the way, whoever steals or sells my face data owes me a boatload of gold. That’s my price.
The streaming services are run by shithead C-suites who think last quarter is the way it’s always been. They forget the only reason most of us use their services is someone more visionary than them made it more convenient than piracy half a generation ago. Let’s remind them there’s an alternative.
This is another step closer to requiring an ID to use the internet at all, which is exactly what the ruling class wants.
Fight back wherever you can.
I’m returning to car boot sales to buy cubic meters of CDs.
That, and BandCamp.What do you think of Qobuz? From what I’ve seen, it’s got more stuff than bandcamp (at least from my library). It seems to pay the artists well too.
Bandcamp, Soulseek, Navidrome, ListenBrainz.
Has been a pretty solid Spotify-replacement stack.
what are “spotify fans”? Spotify paid 150k $ for Trump’s inauguration party, f them. They do not deserve my money
I left Spotify for many reasons including this. They’ve only proven that they do not care about artists at all. I remember before I left, many of the tracks that came up “based on my playlist” were just random AI generated crap.
Considering how much Spotify pays artists per listens, piracy is barely any different in that regard.
Do it.
It’s easy. Just use a Youtube-to-MP3 converter.
Seriously, fuck Spotify and anyone else using that error-prone, intrusive, insecure bullshit.
You can say a lot of Spotify and of Apple, but the iOS app of Spotify is basically bug free and has been bug free for more than a decade now for me. The webclient has been buggy for me though.
Where is Spotify error prone? I dont use it that much, but I havent encountered a bug once.
I use it a lot, and have been for 10 years or so. I have never had any sort of error. It has simply always worked exactly like it’s supposed to.
I don’t know anything about it being intrusive or insecure, and definately need a source on that, but it’s possible those criticisms are valid, but again, need a damn source. As is, the person you commented on has lost all cridibilty, so I’m inclined to err on the side of caution, and assume they don’t know what they’re talking about.
When people get mad they get hyperbolic sometimes. Might be the case here. Same with not having it error on me as well. That said, fuck their CEO, they lost a sub from me after I heard about the drone investment.
If I am paying for my account personally, with a card in my name, what more do they need?
They want to scan your face to get as many images of people of stated ages to feed into their facial recognition system. Do not for one moment think it is for anything else.
Edit: it is like how Facebook had a 10 years ago you looked like this! Post a new comparison photo today!’ Specifically because they want to know how people age for their AI shit.
Yeah, they want to be able to ‘People that look like This listen to This’ so that advertisers have more options when they are locking down commercials.
Well sure, the real reason is always data harvesting.
tf is spotify “fans”? more like spotify “users”
Fans of things that are provisioned by Spotify.
doesn’t make them fans of spotify though
I guess that’s why I didn’t say that, or agree with that framing.
Do it
