Spotify can tell whether users are happy or sad, based on what they listen to. It will use that data to manipulate them. The data will sooner or later be combined with other personal data, to control people according to the corporate will.
To protect yourself from this tracking, do as I do — get an actual copy of the song, and listen to it with free software. Then no company will know what you are listening to.
Out, out, damned Spotify!
Autism: the post
*listens only to japanoise and HNW*
Good luck figuring me out, faggots.
Spotify is the only time tracking an "algorithms" has benefited me since I wouldn't have discovered even a tenth of the artists I listen to on a daily basis without it.
most spotify users just go ahead and click playlists that describe an emotion. not realyl hard work for spoitify or shady. so what's the issue
.Spotify can tell whether users are happy or sad, based on what they listen to
Yeah
>It will use that data to manipulate them. The data will sooner or later be combined with other personal data, to control people according to the corporate will.
That's a huge fucking stretch considering it's not in the business plan to ''control'' people as more people finding good music on spotify = more money for them.
>To protect yourself from this tracking, do as I do — get an actual copy of the song, and listen to it with free software. Then no company will know what you are listening to.
And then how the fuck am I going to find music I like? Music stores are dead and youtube autoplay is fucking horrible.
>And then how the fuck am I going to find music I like? Music stores are dead and youtube autoplay is fucking horrible.
Just look it up on DDG
Please die
nice, they must think of me as highly suicidal by now!
or SearX :^)
>mossing out on patrician western power electronics and harsh noise scene
I only listen to grimes and kpop
DDG failed me with this, I ended up finding everything I needed on Yandex. sad.
>And then how the fuck am I going to find music I like?
RYM, Last.FM, wikipedia, Discogs, literally any other music resource. The state of fucking nu-Jow Forums buying into a botnet because they know nothing about technology or the net
Yandex is botnet too
Music-payfags BTFO!!!
yeah yeah, what isn't these days? Just use TOR with it. But the best part is, I eventually ended up finding a Russian music download site that gives no bs 320kbps tracks, no shitty youtube rips either.
Fuck you
sauce
Seething
ipleer.fm
I forgot about that website. Time for for some downloads ->->->
Anything Russian is good as they violate copyright, such as pornography.
Based slavpills
Just a little humor to add a little pizazz to the mix
I remember a time when buying music would have gotten you laughed out of Jow Forums. Oh how times have changed.
>The data will sooner or later be combined with other personal data
This either means that Spotify will have to buy data from other sources (unlikely, due to the low revenue they have, and that spotify would have little to gain from that); or that somebody else will buy and use spotify's data. This could happen as long as law allows it, and afaik, this violates GDPR.
That said, context aware recomendations are a thing, where the goal is to indentify when the user is sad, happy, in a party, etc, in order to provide accurate recommendations that fit that mood. Controlling the mood is not really profitable for a private company. If anything, governments are the ones interested in control.
Evereything has a cost. If you are not paying money for stuff, you're either the product itself (free streaming services), or the creator is going broke (piracy).
Okay, I get the mechanism, but you've left out the why. So they know that I'm sad, they see me listening to sad music, now what?
I blame the indoctrinated zoomers.
GDPR doesn't apply to the US
>you're either the product itself (free streaming services), or the creator is going broke (piracy).
Not really, though. If I'm pirating music, the creator going broke doesn't really have anything to do with that. A better "cost" would be the bandwidth and energy used for the piracy to take place, which admittedly, is already a baked in cost with the other scenarios anyhow.
Also, depending on the data available on a specific user fingerprint and assuming they're blocking ads, they might not be a product at all, they are more likely a liability due to bandwidth costs.
>he uses ddg
underrated post