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
    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.