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Sensor data could make sense to pick appropriate music based on activity. Perhaps the idea with the GPS is the same, although personally I'd still prefer not to share that.
Apple 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 f…
Think you misunderstood that aspect of jamesblonde's comment. He's suggesting the journalist is pushing Apple's PR for them. It does happen, journalists often use content PR firms send them. I have no idea if it happened in this case.
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.
Is that a thing? I thought Apple Music existed only to push iDevices.
i have opened the app on Android, gone to the privacy policies and I don't see any of those things he talks about. I have privacy policy in Spanish
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 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.
The part that concerns me is that my data can now be sold to someone else, with ever more excruciating detail about me. Thats the part that concerns me; I don't have an arrangement with those third parties.
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.
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.
To be clear, Spotify using my habits and data to improve their service I have no problem with; it makes a better service for me! Same with Apple.
Maybe I should have explained clearer in my original comment (though I thought it was obvious) but I have no problem dealing with companies that I deal with; it's companies I DONT have an arrangement with who I have trouble trusting they wont use my data against me.
And now it appears that Spotify is one of those companies. And all I want to do is stream my playlists on the way to work. Now I have to consider that they may be selling my contacts lists, movements, etc;
It's a plain cash grab at my expense. And I wont do business with businesses that don't respect me or my data.
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"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.
It appears that the privacy policy makes several references to advertising. I pay money so I don't receive any advertising, so Spotify make no money from me that way. The part that concerns me is that my data can now be sold to someone else, with ever more excruciating detail about me. Thats the part that concerns me; I don't have an arrangement with those third parties.
So i'm pretty sure, they won't show/play us (paying) customers any ads. Because if they would, many people will cancel their subscription (me included).
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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.