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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 cheschire »

mrweasel wrote: post #59

A little off topic, but I believe that Facebook, and to some extend Google, have screwed over any future “free” services with their behaviour. Personally, I will be very unlikely to sign up for ANY service that doesn’t offer a paid tier, in the future. I believe that this will hold true for others who have previously been quick to adopt new services and products. This will hinder competitors from gaining traction.

And for good reason. If there were a way to make money off a free service that didn’t involve selling user data, it would already have been bought by google.

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

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Post by reitanqild »

mrweasel wrote: post #59

A little off topic, but I believe that Facebook, and to some extend Google, have screwed over any future “free” services with their behaviour. Personally, I will be very unlikely to sign up for ANY service that doesn’t offer a paid tier, in the future. I believe that this will hold true for others who have previously been quick to adopt new services and products. This will hinder competitors from gaining traction.

Mostly agree.

Sadly as we've seen recently companies exist that are shady enough to both charge the user and collect data without asking at the same time.

So I guess the rule of thumb is true and I'll still look for paid services, but even then I guess we should be careful.

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

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Post by Insanity »

hnrodey wrote: post #34
hs86 wrote: post #8

I 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, just confirmed this works. I can now log in to Spotify via email/password. Thanks for this! The only caveat is you will need to re-sign in to every device where you are currently signed in via FB.

That is expected behaviour though after unlinking :)

Cool that this works!

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

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Post by tzs »

Obviously if you are getting rid of Facebook you would need to stop using Facebook to login to other things, but for people who are not getting rid of Facebook itself what are the security and privacy risks of using it for login for other services such as Spotify?

Does a Facebook breach let the attackers get into your Spotify account? Does it leak the existence of your Spotify account? Is there personal information from your Spotify account that can be gotten via a Facebook breach?

Same question for using any other OAuth provider, such as Google.

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

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Post by mehrdadn »

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.

> But, the data breach exploiting 3 vulnerabilities seems to be bad luck

To me it seemed to stem from at least one fundamentally alarming design problem on their part, not "bad luck". [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18203396

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

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Post by SyneRyder »

aldrinleal wrote: post #4

You can always ask Support and they'll happily migrate your data to a new account.

Yup, they did this for me back in 2015, and it was a really good customer support experience. I'd actually created a second account & asked them to close my original Facebook-linked one, but they offered to move across all my playlist data etc over to the new account so I didn't have to start over. And they checked in with me to make sure the data all looked good before deleting the other account. I was really happy with how they handled it.

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

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Post by samstave »

iamben wrote: post #51

The most frustrating Spotify problem for me is the link between mobile / desktop play queues. I've moaned about it many, many times on the forums and there's a giant thread of people moaning about the same thing, but it's been years without resolve. Basically, if I don't force-close the Spotify app on my Android before I get my laptop open on the same wifi, the phone will overwrite any play queue on my desktop. I exc…

You just identified a wish-list-item I have for music apps: Location aware playlists:

The device would be aware where it is located - or moving via either gps, accelerometer or wifi ssid visibility or even an ibeacon.

The device will then know that it should play from selected sets/playlists that I have tagged appropriate for that location.

I would like this in a video library management app as well.

Basically, the content most likely to be relevant to my current location or activity should float to the top of the playlist or click-field.

All content should obviously be available, but preference to play a cetain list over another based on location or activity without overt action from me.

Kind of like an "ok google - I am now running so play my running lists" and "ok google - I just arrived at my office so either STFU or play my worklist"

"Looks like you just got on bart list"

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