For me, no ads, no upsell spam and no unwanted feature pushed down my throat are more important than anything else, therefore I've went back to actually buying

For me, no ads, no upsell spam and no unwanted feature pushed down my throat are more important than anything else, therefore I've went back to actually buying individual albums. They sound better like that anyway (yes I know they don't but I'm just an unreasonable ape after all). For people who are there for the recommendations, perhaps finding a community with similar taste could help. As in, interact with humans instead of algorithms. Yes it's more time consuming and way less efficient in general, but perhaps what you find could sound better for you too?