Netflix and Spotify Ask: Can Data Mining Make for Cute Ads?

Post by Fnoord » Tue, Dec 19, 2017, 6:41 PM UTC

nerflad wrote: post #2

Cute? No. These ads are smug and tone-deaf. Complete disregard for privacy has become the rule rather than the exception on the internet, and these ads practically celebrate that. I don't care if the data is anonymized. I've never had a Netflix account and I've already started building my .flac library back up and will be cancelling my spotify subscription. The convenience of these services is not worth their disresp…

Worse, they are a campaign to make this behaviour acceptable.

How I would feel: to the 300 morons who took the train on 31 december to south of The Netherlands, WTF are you doing in that crappy rural area?

Post by mrguyorama » Tue, Dec 19, 2017, 8:38 PM UTC

nerflad wrote: post #31

voltagex_ wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Without piracy I have two problems with my music collection: 1. My running playlist would cost $700+AUD to buy. 2. Most places don't have FLAC available or even 320kbit MP3

I encourage you to check out https://hdtracks.com . As far as the expense goes, yes you're right it's a drag. One thing I like to do is buy used CD's on ebay or Amazon (usually about half price from a reseller, or even cheaper from private sellers) and rip them to flac.

For me, I don't have a "Collection" of music I like. My tastes are hard to define, ephemeral, and silly. I will play a song hundreds of times and then a week later never play it again. I want to support artists but doing so through anything other than a subscription process would bankrupt me

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