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Facebook and Spotify are tightly partnered together - at one point they actually REQUIRED the use of Facebook to log in. The option to register without Facebook was only reintroduced recently.
Not true, I don't use Facebook and I was one of part of the Open Beta many years ago.
This is pretty shameless, even for Facebook.
Except it's Spotify doing it, not Facebook...
Just because Spotify accidentally (or purposefully) took advantage of that hole doesn't mean it's not Facebook at fault here.
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Facebook and Spotify are tightly partnered together - at one point they actually REQUIRED the use of Facebook to log in. The option to register without Facebook was only reintroduced recently.
Not true, I don't use Facebook and I was one of part of the Open Beta many years ago.
I'm still not sure how or why it happened.
http://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?_fb_noscript=1
That's in Swedish for me but I assume it's localized. It says that there are two options, one is deactivation, and if you don't believe you'll need your account again, the other is deletion.
It says quite clearly: "Log in with Facebook or Spotify". That means you can log in using a Facebook account or a Spotify account. The username field says "Facebook Email or Spotify Username". So when you type an email, you log in using a Facebook account. It's not that hard to understand. By the way, that account you made on the sign up page is still unused: you logged in using a Facebook account, which is a differe…
I wanted to try spotify a while back but got stuck when it required a FB account. Sounds like it's no longer required, but I suppose I still don't trust them enough to try their service.
You can signup with an email address , but the option is hidden quite low in the signup page. Best way to avoid this sort of stuff is just to sign up to spotify with throwaway email. I have found that it's worth buying a domain name and just tying it to a VPS with SMTP installed (or using a third part service that offers unlimited addresses). That way you can just generate throwaway email addresses as you need them.
[0] http://www.mailinator.com/ [1] http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/01/your-own-private-mail...
This is just Spotify not finding a user with username=[your email address] and looking for that user on Facebook. I did a test by creating an account with the email benjamintesterton@mailinator.com (not linked to a Facebook account) and username benjamintesterton. When I tried logging in with the email, it failed, but with just the username worked. If logging in with the email did work, it would mean that Spotify aut…
That is correct. It says quite clearly "Facebook Email or Spotify Username". It's the user's mistake for using their Facebook account instead of the account they just created.