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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 sam1r »

mithr wrote: post #75

Spotify has some really strange "won't fix" issues... I'm on a Spotify family plan. I recently bought a Spotify gift card on sale, because you can usually apply those for a credit on subscription services. Well, it turns out unlike the rest of their plans, Spotify Family doesn't support gift cards. I didn't even consider that it might not apply to all plans, and didn't check the fine print. Disappointed, I contacted…

In general, I always try to put my PM shoes on and try to evaluate what benefit they could possibly be receiving to ignore such a prominent issue that you can pretty much guarantee they are well aware of the issue.

That being said, I completely agree that this is pretty strange since I have not a single example that comes to mind in this case...

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

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Post by ReverseCold »

arihant wrote: post #74
daveFNbuck wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's not reasonable at all. You're 1 instance of bad luck away from death. But that's hardly a reason to not leave home.

It's hardly a reason to leave home, but it's definitely a reason to, for example, not go skydiving.

You obviously can't remove all risk, but you sure can reduce it.

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

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Post by mattnewton »

arihant wrote: post #74
daveFNbuck wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's not reasonable at all. You're 1 instance of bad luck away from death. But that's hardly a reason to not leave home.

Presumably you get value from leaving home, and these people realized they weren’t getting value from Facebook.

Personally I have still friends I cannot switch to other platforms so I am stuck checking my Facebook messages once a month, but that is the only reason I still have an account, and I have unliked everything else from the service.

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

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Post by mattnewton »

tzs wrote: post #64

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 f…

For me, I am in the processing of using Facebook less, trying to get rid of it. I still have some international friends where it is my ownly reliable way to contact them, so I have to keep the account. But I don’t want to use it for anything else in the event I can eventually sunset it entirely.

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

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Post by unimpressive »

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.

On the one hand yes, on the other hand there will always be a critical mass of people who will take 'free' if it's offered as a price point. It's just too compelling for that not to be true.

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

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Post by qwerty456127 »

daveFNbuck wrote: post #44
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.

> 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.

There is no such thing as data stolen but from the files on your hard drive. As soon as you upload something to the Internet you publish it and have no guarantee but hope people you don't want to see it won't notice it.

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

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Post by samstave »

Brian_K_White wrote: post #78

I turned off FB "platform intergration" entirely, years ago, and it took me like 1 minute to google this up, which worked then and still works now. What's the big mystery? https://community.spotify.com/t5/iOS-iPhone-iPad/Log-in-to-s... Ever since then I use that "device name" (really more like a Spotify account number that stands in for a username) for everything. Logging in to Spotify clients built in to TV and roku…

This is awesome and should be widely known.

I would really like a tool that will go through my accounts-list (maybe from Last Pass, for example) which would crawl / determine / detect who is linking to whom and how. Then offer ways to unlink.

Finally, another thing I would like is an "identity creator" app - one that will shotgun out an entire set of accounts to be managed out as an identity.

For example - a tool that will go out and createa login/ID at some range/list of sites, say, for a new-born child.

It will go and setup and lock-down into as-private-as-possible an account across FB, HN, Reddit, DropBox, Google, etc. etc. etc.

And then keep those accounts locked and with a password-manager.

You can add/remove accounts across these systems as needed.

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

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Post by colemickens »

I had unlinked my account using the officially supported method. It appeared to work. Months later, I noticed they were still updating my profile picture. I contacted them via Twitter. Four repeated explanations and screenshots later, they confirmed the accounts were silently still linked (despite no actual app authorization existing for Spotify in my Facebook account.)

Took them two weeks to manually unlink it (as in, they had to contact engineering and have them look at it). No explanation of how it happened. No explanation for how they were still accessing the data at all. I have no doubt others are affected.

Spotify Connect is brilliant, every single other thing about the Spotify experience is shoddy. (Like that song that just finished playing? Too bad, you can't see the playlist history without manually skipping back many tracks, etc)

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