I also created my Spotify account with Facebook. When I wanted to unlink them I just sent an email to support and they did it pretty quickly with no issues. I haven't used FB and Spotify for years now, so things might have changed, but OP should try and do the same.
Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
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Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
#12I already unlinked my Spotfiy account from Facebook with this way: https://robblewis.me/convert-spotify-facebook-to-email-login... No account migration of contacting support is needed. Just use your registered email account to reset (or in this case actually set) your account password and afterwards you can log in via your email+pw. Then in the Spotify preferences the button to disconnect Facebook becomes available.
Wow, thank you! I'll give this a shot tonight. I've been wanting to disconnect it for a while now as well.
Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
#13A quick email to support helped me do this a couple of years back. Don’t know if it should be any more trouble nowadays
Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
#14I would like to know why some people stopped using Facebook claiming that the main reason is "the recent databreach". If you don't want to use Facebook for how they handle your data in the first place, it seems perfectly fine to me. But, the data breach exploiting 3 vulnerabilities seems to be bad luck, I don't really think they're not committed to security in that sense. I'd like to know opinions from others.
IMAO Facebook IS a data breach where people voluntarily comply to, not just some vulnerabilities. Login with Facebook is a pretty stupid thing to do anyway, happily giving away even more data.. Cannot think of 1 valid reason to do that except for being too lazy to generate a new password.
Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
#15Literally created another account last night and transferred all my playlists. Was actually straightforward on the desktop (drag and drop playlists from old to new account. Lost all of my history, but w/e.
Removing/blocking followers would also be appreciated.
Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
#16I already unlinked my Spotfiy account from Facebook with this way: https://robblewis.me/convert-spotify-facebook-to-email-login... No account migration of contacting support is needed. Just use your registered email account to reset (or in this case actually set) your account password and afterwards you can log in via your email+pw. Then in the Spotify preferences the button to disconnect Facebook becomes available.
When it says "disconnect Spotify in Facebook" does that mean deleting the Spotify app? Doing so warns me that it could potentially delete my account, which worried me enough not to go through with it.
Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
#17An unexpected downside of oAuth rears its ugly head.
I mean the loss of trust in the provider is an obvious downside of centralized authentication right?
The “unexpected” part is the loss of trust in Facebook as a provider.
I would argue trusting Facebook with anything was obviously going to end in tears but I admit I’m not a normal user.
Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
#18I don't have Facebook, and I desperately want to get rid of the panel on the right telling me to login. So annoying. Apart from that really enjoy Spotify.
Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
#19I would like to know why some people stopped using Facebook claiming that the main reason is "the recent databreach". If you don't want to use Facebook for how they handle your data in the first place, it seems perfectly fine to me. But, the data breach exploiting 3 vulnerabilities seems to be bad luck, I don't really think they're not committed to security in that sense. I'd like to know opinions from others.
IMAO Facebook IS a data breach where people voluntarily comply to, not just some vulnerabilities. Login with Facebook is a pretty stupid thing to do anyway, happily giving away even more data.. Cannot think of 1 valid reason to do that except for being too lazy to generate a new password.
That's the whole point of OpenID. One account with one credentials, multiple profiles on multiple sites. Lazyness is good. Much better than creating n acoounts on multiple sites using the same passwords, getting the weakest site to be compromised silently and hackers streaming back to your other accounts from that one. I'd rather trust fb.com 2fa security team over joeschmoe.com's one.
Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
#20An unexpected downside of oAuth rears its ugly head.
I mean the loss of trust in the provider is an obvious downside of centralized authentication right? The “unexpected” part is the loss of trust in Facebook as a provider. I would argue trusting Facebook with anything was obviously going to end in tears but I admit I’m not a normal user.
Agree, the problem in regards to spotify is that for a while spotify required facebook for new accounts.
The disconnect that led to that decision is absolutely mind blowing. To make it even more surreal lots of people, even on HN, defended it.