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The company’s only hardware product will soon be e-waste.

  • makyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    1 month ago

    It was really hard to pull off the bandage but I finally did it. It was really death by 1000 cuts but the last one for me was when they started injecting ads (not the baked-in ads, mind you) into podcasts. Apparently paying for Spotify to remove ads to them only meant removing ads from the music. To insult their users like that was enough for me.

    • yuri@pawb.socialEnglish
      51·
      1 month ago

      I believe ads in podcasts are the doing of the folks making the podcast, not spotify.

      • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
        81·
        1 month ago

        No, what GP means is that some podcasts have an ad break, and Spotify will inject ads relevant to your region/demographic, even if you pay for premium.

        This isn’t the host reading copy from their sponsors which, fair enough, would be hard to strip out in many cases.

        • yuri@pawb.socialEnglish
          31·
          1 month ago

          Yeah see I was under the impression that it’s still the show’s choice, like if you don’t have sponsor deals you can just let spotify inject ads and get paid for that instead.

          • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
            7·
            1 month ago

            But we’re paying for no ads. Spotify could give them a slice of the premium money.

            • yuri@pawb.socialEnglish
              2·
              1 month ago

              That’s honestly a good idea, but I reckon they’d probably give em a real shit rate like they already do with artists.

              The thing that really gets my goat is getting a fucken full screen ad for some random mainstream new release.

              • AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                3·
                1 month ago

                the full screen ads for irrelevent (to you) music is one of my biggest gripes. Spotify i’ve never listened to a Taylor Swift song in my life, i don’t give a shit if she has a new album and you know that!