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Spotify sees spike in traffic to cancellation page: 196% week-on-week

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Re: Spotify sees spike in traffic to cancellation page: 196% week-on-week

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Post by altdataseller »

jdkjs wrote: post #2

What is SimilarWeb and how do they know that? Because I have a hunch that they are pulling the numbers out of their asses just so they are mentioned in articles from shitty blogs like this one.

They have a bunch of Chrome extensions that spy on what users are visiting online, and use that data to sell their product to marketers.

Personally think Google should get rid of them as they are a travesty to online privacy.

Re: Spotify sees spike in traffic to cancellation page: 196% week-on-week

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Post by wewtyflakes »

coding123 wrote: post #5

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The numbers being called out greatly exceed 3 and 6. Unsure what inflation would have to do with cancellation numbers unless you are arguing that the cost of the service has inflated more greatly than the income of its users. However, the story did seem to give context for what is driving these numbers, and inflation was not one of them. Can you elaborate on why you think it is due to inflation, rather than what the article cited?

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Post by PaywallBuster »

jdkjs wrote: post #2

What is SimilarWeb and how do they know that? Because I have a hunch that they are pulling the numbers out of their asses just so they are mentioned in articles from shitty blogs like this one.

They own a number of popular browser extensions which feed them data and provide them a good "sample" of web traffic

It can be surprisingly close

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Post by coolso »

Apocryphon wrote: post #8

Did not know there were that many Neil Young and Joni Mitchell fans. I wonder if there's any studies on the stickiness of cancellations. There were reoccurring pushes to delete Uber since 2017, but not sure how often people went back anyway.

I canceled my premium subscription because of all of the Joe Rogan episodes they deleted.

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Post by sp332 »

vkou wrote: post #9
taf2 wrote: post #3

i just signed up. what's wrong with spotify?

It is keeping the most popular podcast in the world on its platform, despite the host breaking Spotify's TOS on the subject of COVID misinformation.

Not just keeping, but paid $100 million for exclusivity.

Re: Spotify sees spike in traffic to cancellation page: 196% week-on-week

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Post by odshoifsdhfs »

altdataseller wrote: post #11
jdkjs wrote: post #2

What is SimilarWeb and how do they know that? Because I have a hunch that they are pulling the numbers out of their asses just so they are mentioned in articles from shitty blogs like this one.

They have a bunch of Chrome extensions that spy on what users are visiting online, and use that data to sell their product to marketers. Personally think Google should get rid of them as they are a travesty to online privacy.

So google should also ban themselves? At least the Chrome extensions people installed themselves, can't say the same about Google fonts/analytics/whatever else

Re: Spotify sees spike in traffic to cancellation page: 196% week-on-week

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Post by harrybr »

altdataseller wrote: post #11
jdkjs wrote: post #2

What is SimilarWeb and how do they know that? Because I have a hunch that they are pulling the numbers out of their asses just so they are mentioned in articles from shitty blogs like this one.

They have a bunch of Chrome extensions that spy on what users are visiting online, and use that data to sell their product to marketers. Personally think Google should get rid of them as they are a travesty to online privacy.

So they’re estimating based on a sample that may not represent the population of Spotify subscribers. The only people who know the real figures are Spotify themselves.

It would be interesting to know the names of these chrome extensions and whether the sign up experience clearly communicates the ways in which the users will be tracked.

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