Read: “Of course we knew about it, we started it. But the bad publicity was becoming a problem so we do it less now and present it so we look like the defender of true art.”
Ding, videos and articles showcasing it must have become popular all of a sudden.
Guessing advertisers didn’t want to spend money putting up ads for bots and told Spotify to do something about it.
Buy music directly from artists. Plenty of them sell their tracks online.
That requires you to buy all your music though, for those (like me) that own basically nothing, it’s crazy to change.
They need to force the free streaming of owned tracks or something. Qobuz allows this I think, but only if you buy through them.
Bandcamp even allows free streaming when you don’t own the music. But the player sucks
Can’t recommend Bandcamp fridays enough.
You can also use programs like Nicotine+ to download music for free.
Ok now stop paying Joe Rogan a billion dollars a year, and then I’d consider coming back.
And stop injecting extra ads into podcasts for subscribers
Yeah, you’re right. I would still never consider going back. Evil fucks
At this point, that wouldn’t be enough. They’d need a better CEO at the very least
Headline misleading. Makes it sound like this is a problem that they are just getting around to fixing. Reality is this is an intentional business decision that has made them tons of money and they are now publicly claiming to address it when their subscribers are sick of listening to AI slop.
Too. Fucking. Late.
Already dropped them.
