Comment on Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold
gwindli@lemy.lol 4 months ago
spotify is a terrible company. at this point i feel like they have brand hostages rather than brand loyalty. i dont know anybody whos actually happy with the spotify experience any more.
makyo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It was really hard to pull off the bandage but I finally did it. It was really death by 1000 cuts but the last one for me was when they started injecting ads (not the baked-in ads, mind you) into podcasts. Apparently paying for Spotify to remove ads to them only meant removing ads from the music. To insult their users like that was enough for me.
yuri@pawb.social 4 months ago
I believe ads in podcasts are the doing of the folks making the podcast, not spotify.
jonne@infosec.pub 4 months ago
No, what GP means is that some podcasts have an ad break, and Spotify will inject ads relevant to your region/demographic, even if you pay for premium.
This isn’t the host reading copy from their sponsors which, fair enough, would be hard to strip out in many cases.
tyler@programming.dev 4 months ago
That’s how most podcasts work. Doesn’t matter what app you’re using.
yuri@pawb.social 4 months ago
Yeah see I was under the impression that it’s still the show’s choice, like if you don’t have sponsor deals you can just let spotify inject ads and get paid for that instead.