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Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account

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Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account

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Post by whistlerbrk »

Yeah, nothing listed here has worked for me. The issue is I had two accounts with the same email address one with Facebook one w/o. Not sure how it happened but if I try to reset the password of my account with my email address I immediately receive a "welcome back to facebook" email.

So, they are keeping the OID information somewhere. I've asked, begged, pleaded, and demanded for them to fix this and I've gotten absolutely nowhere. It is infuriating.

Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account

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Post by daveFNbuck »

jaimehrubiks wrote: post #7

I 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.

The recent data breach made many people realize that you're always just 1 instance of bad luck away from having a bunch of aggregated personal data stolen. It's pretty reasonable to decide you're better off removing yourself as a target than hoping Facebook will never again experience bad luck.

Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account

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Post by carlivar »

mulmen wrote: post #29
tjoff wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Spotify activity in the early days was super prominent in the Facebook activity feed and that weird mini feed they used to have. So I think they probably got more new customers from that angle as they might have lost from the login limitation.

Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account

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Post by tabs_masterrace »

stephengillie wrote: post #3

An unexpected downside of oAuth rears its ugly head.

You can always provide a way for the user to convert oAuth accounts into your own system. No idea why Spotify hasn't done already, this problem has existed on Spotify for many years now.

Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account

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Post by jocoda »

RafiqM wrote: post #38
mi_lk wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean that Spotify requires Facebook login, I don't have a fb account and are using it just fine. E: Missed the past tense. I just checked, you can sign up with your email address.

It used to. In fact Spotify shared the same auth database with Facebook (not oAuth, the literal same password - change it in FB, it changed in Spotify and vice versa)

Started doing FB only login in Sep 2011, but if you already had an email login you could keep it. Lasted for about a year then it was dropped.

Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account

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Post by jocoda »

brettaaron wrote: post #24

I 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.

FB login only started in sep 2011, and lasted for about a year before it was dropped.

Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account

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Post by tjoff »

gambiting wrote: post #28
brettaaron wrote: post #24

I 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.

For about a year you were unable to create a new spotify account without a facebook account.

Accounts created before that were unaffected.

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