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!? 😑
If you’re not paying you are the product. If you ARE paying you are STILL the product. This is how big tech works.
You become the product with name, address, and payment details attached to the account for improved demographic data for them to collect. Win win.
I pay for Spotify
thats where you made a mistake
Advertisements are now pretending to be recommendations
no, you pay spotify so they can give Joe Rogan money to make up bullshit every day.
You can disable it pretty easily in the settings. I wish more apps let you opt out of ads so easily.
Could not find it on android, do i need to use the webapp?
Try clicking the “what’s this?” I think it explained it when I did it. All I know is I got it once like a year ago and immediately disabled. Still stupid that they do this for paying customers but it wasn’t that hard to opt out.
Thanks! I’ll try this next time when I get one of these popups.
Me listening to Joe Rogan in my car:
“This episode is brought to you by Athletic …”
“Aaaargh! I pay Spotify! They gave you eight and eight figure contract! Why the fuck are there ads??”
There’s an easy way to fix that. Stop listening to Joe Rogan.
I don’t think I will. His show is incredibly entertaining.
The lesson is that corporations will take, take, take no matter what. They will never honor any kind of social contract, and will always abuse anyone and everyone for profit to the maximum extent they are able.
So stop letting them take advantage of you.
Unless, usually, they are a not for profit organization.
Even then. Look at the way they pay people and treat volunteers…
I agree that there are also organizations from this kind
I couldn’t deal with Spotify constantly pushing its industry plant artists and those paying to get into my recommendations. Fuck this company for not giving a shit about your actual tastes
Tidal is a good alternative. Will have to go elsewhere for podcasts, though.
