I was able to unlink FB my account with help from customer support. I had to provide details about my payment. They then basically deleted my account and created a new one and copied the playlists. There were some issues with Discover Weekly and Daily Mix playlists, but they resolved after a couple of weeks. I guess the process could be smoother and more automated, but I am glad now don't use FB login anywhere.
Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
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#23Did this awhile ago, simply contact support or DM https://twitter.com/spotifycares?lang=en and they will easily migrate all your stuff.
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#24I created my first Spotify account in 2011 I'm pretty sure the ONLY way to authenticate was Facebook. There's no way I would have used Facebook rather than email.
Years later I realized how absurd this was, found out you can't unlink them, and just made a new account. Spent a couple of days transferring my playlists.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
With the benefit of hindsight, that OpenID allows the ID authority to engage in tracking is a significant design flaw.
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#26I 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.
I actually refused to use Spotify for years because they required Facebook login. I gave in eventually as Rdio lost to Spotify in the market. Like many, though, I am deeply concerned about Facebook's policy direction and leadership. I did disconnect my Spotify account from my Facebook account the hard way (with customer support) a few months ago.
In general I am enthusiastic about federated signin, but I don't want to do business with Facebook.
Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
#27Did this awhile ago, simply contact support or DM https://twitter.com/spotifycares?lang=en and they will easily migrate all your stuff.
Yep also did this, took maybe 10 mins.
Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
#28I created my first Spotify account in 2011 I'm pretty sure the ONLY way to authenticate was Facebook. There's no way I would have used Facebook rather than email. Years later I realized how absurd this was, found out you can't unlink them, and just made a new account. Spent a couple of days transferring my playlists.
I've had a Spotify account for just as long and never had it linked with Facebook, purely because I didn't have Facebook at the time. I just log in with id and password.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yeah I just didn’t use Spotify until I could sign up with email. It kind of surprised me they were able to gain as much traction as they did with what I viewed as a user-hostile action right at signup.
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#30Spotify gave up on caring about their users a few years ago, I think. I uninstalled after the app forced the "DJ fade in / fade out" between every track -- including between movements of Beethoven's symphonies. (No, the toggle to turn that off never worked for me. No, they never replied to my attempts to let them know how awful it was.)
(No, I'll never go back to their service.)