Spotify is also the company leading the charge against the openness of podcasts. That entire industry has traditionally run on open standards which prevents ga

Spotify is also the company leading the charge against the openness of podcasts. That entire industry has traditionally run on open standards which prevents gatekeepers from interfering with podcast creators, podcast app creators, or end users. Spotify is trying to end that by buying up the exclusive rights to numerous podcasts, killing the open feeds for those podcasts, and forcing all listeners into the Spotify app.