I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a “sponsored recommendation”.

Why am I seeing ads if I’m already paying for the premium plan!? 😑

    • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      You’re advocating for piracy explicitly

      If you’re going to p1r@te, you don’t have to pay sp0tify to do it…

      • Loom In Essence@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        I’m advocating using Bandcamp where the artist actually gets paid. Spotify is piracy, and I’m discouraging that.

        Go to bandcamp and buy the actual album.

        • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Yeah, that’s not happening. I can’t afford to pay thousands of dollars a month for music. I’m going to continue using Spotify because at the end of the day it’s not my responsibility to determine how much the artists get paid. There’s a bunch of problems I care about, this isn’t one of them.

          • Loom In Essence@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            11 months ago

            Well at least you’re honest about not caring about the artists.

            Edit: but you could make a point of buying a couple albums per month if you listen to that much music.

            • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              I generally buy merch from the small bands I like, and the rest are multimillionaires already.

              While I listen to a wide variety of music, it tends to be popular music from a wide range of times where they’ve already made a lot from it.

              But also, yes, there’s a level of convenience I’m not willing to give up. When an artist pulls their music from Spotify, I tend to just not listen to them, through no fault of their own, but it’s where I listen to everything else.

              I’m trying YouTube music out since it’s theoretically a bit better and I already pay for YouTube premium.