Is this for real? I pay £10 a month to avoid this crap and now I'm lumped in as well? Screw this, I'm off to Apple Music.
I moved to deezer. Waiting for android support for apple music. Spotify are gone for me when they ruined their desktop app.
Spotify Just Got Real Creepy with the Data It Collects on You
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#12Is this for real? I pay £10 a month to avoid this crap and now I'm lumped in as well? Screw this, I'm off to Apple Music.
"I pay £10 a month to avoid this crap"
I don't understand this concept. I pay $10 a month get rid of ads, to be able to use the mobile app, and to get higher quality streams. There was never any reason to believe being a paid member had any impact on the data Spotify collects from you.
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#13Is this for real? I pay £10 a month to avoid this crap and now I'm lumped in as well? Screw this, I'm off to Apple Music.
I moved to deezer. Waiting for android support for apple music. Spotify are gone for me when they ruined their desktop app.
You're complaining about Spotify's desktop app and yet you'd rather use iTunes? That's rich.
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#14"Upon opening the Spotify app up this morning..." "FORBES contacted Spotify for a response and is awaiting comment." This tells you exactly how much time they waited for Spotify to respond. This is 'iterative journalism' at its worst: publish first, investigate later! Completely disgusting.
Why should Forbes wait for comment, when Spotify didn't wait for their users? It's not as if this is something that took Spotify by surprise, like a data hack, that would require time to formulate a legally-sound response. They will have been planning and implementing this change for months. They could have issued a press release two weeks ago advising their customers of the upcoming changes, but didn't. Spotify seem…
> Why should Forbes wait for comment, when Spotify didn't wait for their users?
In other words, I don't think he's saying Forbes did Spotify dirty, rather Forbes did wrong by their readers by publishing a story without investigating it first.
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#15"Upon opening the Spotify app up this morning..." "FORBES contacted Spotify for a response and is awaiting comment." This tells you exactly how much time they waited for Spotify to respond. This is 'iterative journalism' at its worst: publish first, investigate later! Completely disgusting.
Why should Forbes wait for comment, when Spotify didn't wait for their users? It's not as if this is something that took Spotify by surprise, like a data hack, that would require time to formulate a legally-sound response. They will have been planning and implementing this change for months. They could have issued a press release two weeks ago advising their customers of the upcoming changes, but didn't. Spotify seem…
Spotify does wait for the user's consent. That's the whole point of agreeing to the privacy policy. Apart from that, Spotify doesn't have anything to do with basic principles of journalism, because they are not journalists.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple wrote the article for them. Forbes edited it and published it. That's the real story here, IMO.
Yeah you already said that elsewhere, also without any kind of proof or even a hint that it might be true.
Dude, that's how the real world works. Hacks do not read updates to privacy policies. They get a tip-off and summary of what to write. I don't need proof. That's how it works.
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#17Apple are just getting dirty in the music business now. They're telling their favorite journalists about Spotify's new privacy policy - like a journalist would ever investigate such a thing!
"Upon opening the Spotify app up this morning, your reporter was greeted with a request to agree to the new conditions."
So Apple hacked the Spotify app to pop up a message announcing the new privacy policy? On iOS, Android, or both? Either way, that's quite an extraordinary claim.
I find the idea that Spotify made the change itself and that tech journalists routinely check for changes in privacy policies searching for something to write about much more plausible.
So, please give some evidence that this is what happened.
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#18Is this for real? I pay £10 a month to avoid this crap and now I'm lumped in as well? Screw this, I'm off to Apple Music.
Why? Apple built your telephone; they already know about your "contacts, photos, or media files." They know your GPS location, too.
This reminds me of the quip about conservative folks threatening to move to Canada because they're unhappy about all the corrupting liberal values creeping into American politics.
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#19I just wanted to note that forbes uses at least 16 trackers in this article (and does not tell you about it). I have no problem with journalists pointing out flaws, but especially forbes likes to know a lot about its readers.
FYI, I opened up the privacy policy from my Spotify install (I updated yesterday, I think?) and none of this is mentioned in it.
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#20Is this for real? I pay £10 a month to avoid this crap and now I'm lumped in as well? Screw this, I'm off to Apple Music.
To be fair, I opened the privacy policy from Spotify just now (I think I updated to a newer version yesterday?) and I don't see any of these things mentioned in the privacy policy, so might wanna hold your horses.