Does anyone know what Spotify is doing with users who have an account already but are not on Facebook? I really don't want to close my account but if they make Facebook mandatory, I will have to.
Spotify not out to completely embarrass you via Facebook anymore
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Re: Spotify not out to completely embarrass you via Facebook anymore
#22Why do Facebook and all these companies make the elimination of your privacy with a new feature opt-out, rather than opt-in? If they are really building that new feature to help the user, it should be opt-in and the user should have the option to choose it. But when they are making everything opt-out by default, they are clearly doing to help themselves. If your feature is actually that helpful, then make it opt-in a…
This whole round of Open Graph apps that share stuff like what you're reading are all opt-in. You have to authorize the app in order for it to publish anything about you (or even know who you are). (disclaimer: I work at FB, but not on this stuff.)
Opt in on the app level, but not necessarily on the permissions level.
Maybe this is not generally a problem until you get software like Spotify (entirely third party) that now requires a Facebook account to work.
I don't know how they've pulled this off, whether they've forced non-Facebook accounts to add Facebook, or not. But if the former is the case, that is about as far from 'opt-in' as you can get. And up until an incomprehensible oversight was addressed (now 'cleverly' marketed as an amazing feature with its own name and everything), you couldn't opt out.
But of course that's not the end of it. Because the opt-in then opt-out model still allows Facebook to log even the most basic data from the user in that period of time in-between.
While Facebook's cavalier approach to privacy and ethics may become the examples that prove the importance of privacy and ethics in a transitional era (where the introduction of the internet into everyday life is still a very new concept), the "shoot first, ask questions later" method doesn't really endear them to anyone.
No business could show more contempt for its customers and for consumers by partnering up with a business like Facebook and demanding you sign up with them to subscribe to their service.
Re: Spotify not out to completely embarrass you via Facebook anymore
#23Does anyone know what Spotify is doing with users who have an account already but are not on Facebook? I really don't want to close my account but if they make Facebook mandatory, I will have to.
To answer my own question:
"I just want to clarify: some users seem to believe we're forcing existing users to be FB. We only require FB for new users." -- Daniel Ek on Twitter.