Anyone wanna know how much Spotify wanna know about you?
Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020
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#22When this report came out it was the straw that broke the camel's back for me in terms of my data privacy. Most people seem to have found Wrapped 2020 entertaining but I found it creepy. I miss being able to do something simple like listen to music or watch a movie without all my actions being recorded and saved. So I'm back to buying physical media and DRM free downloads. I'm convinced that it is now important to ho…
I haven't used Spotify in over a year so I don't know about this. What in Wrapped 2020 was so different from previous years that made it creepy for you?
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#23When this report came out it was the straw that broke the camel's back for me in terms of my data privacy. Most people seem to have found Wrapped 2020 entertaining but I found it creepy. I miss being able to do something simple like listen to music or watch a movie without all my actions being recorded and saved. So I'm back to buying physical media and DRM free downloads. I'm convinced that it is now important to ho…
What’s your concern, that your listening history will be linked to your personal identity and somehow used against you? If that’s the case, why not just sign up using a single-use email address, pay via gift cards purchased with cash, and if you’re really concerned, use a VPN?
This is what relentless back-and-forth made someone realise how much Spotify loves him.
Re: Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020
#24When this report came out it was the straw that broke the camel's back for me in terms of my data privacy. Most people seem to have found Wrapped 2020 entertaining but I found it creepy. I miss being able to do something simple like listen to music or watch a movie without all my actions being recorded and saved. So I'm back to buying physical media and DRM free downloads. I'm convinced that it is now important to ho…
What’s your concern, that your listening history will be linked to your personal identity and somehow used against you? If that’s the case, why not just sign up using a single-use email address, pay via gift cards purchased with cash, and if you’re really concerned, use a VPN?
Because your music taste is essentially a unique fingerprint that could be used to track you in the future even across accounts or platforms, and the only way to escape would be to literally give up on all your favorite songs and listen to something totally unrelated.
Re: Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020
#25Great! Now will they stop scanning my entire hard drive with their desktop app? Also stop opening sockets directly to advertiser IP address. And stop paying off data thieves instead of disclosing to their users that their passwords were leaked. And to stop being sellouts too!
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#26Wrapped works so well because it panders to you. Everyone likes to be acknowledged for listening to the weird indie band they discovered earlier this year.
I enjoy it anyways, and Spotify is still a great service for now - I wonder if it'll meet the same fate as Netflix at some point, with publishing houses going for their own streaming services instead.
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#27Spotify is a company that feels like they want to be a "big tech company" when in reality they do not need to. All they need to do is provide a great service with as much music as possible.
All they need to do is provide a great service with as much music as possible.
I wonder if adding 'as much music as possible' would drive any growth without the AI music discovery stuff. There has to be a diminishing return to adding new songs - if Spotify adds an artist that only a few thousand people have heard of then that's only going attract a few thousand new customers at most. No one else is going to listen to that artist unless Spotify recommends the songs to people who might like them.
Re: Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020
#28Great! Now will they stop scanning my entire hard drive with their desktop app? Also stop opening sockets directly to advertiser IP address. And stop paying off data thieves instead of disclosing to their users that their passwords were leaked. And to stop being sellouts too!
Do you have links to further readings about this?
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#29Sorry if it's off-topic, but if anyone's interested, I'm launching volt.fm next week. It connects to your Spotify account and generates a nice public page with your stats (top artists, top tracks), playlists and etc. You can reserve your username now: https://volt.fm
Hi, how is this different/better than last.fm?
It helps you promote your playlists and discover new ones.
Re: Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020
#30I came here expecting to read about the tech in the article or how others do big data processing stuff. Instead I get off topic Spotify rants.. Did you read the article or just see Spotify in the headline and decided your gripes therefore are relevant?