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I have Spotify Premium and I'm okay with any promotions/recommendations as long as I don't get interrupted with actual ads in between 2-3 songs on my playlists.

ushakov 4y ago
i'm not okay with any promotions/recommendations as long as I'm paying for Premium
- wyclif 4y ago
  Correct. Is any Spotify user seriously going to maintain that "Premium" does not mean "no ads"?
  - eminence32 4y ago
    Honestly, the only thing I care about is audio interruptions to my music. If a record label wants to pay spotify to place a text widget on my screen that says "check out this new album", I am OK with that because it's very ignorable. That is, what I'm paying for is "no audio interruptions".
- rschachte 4y ago
  Definitely don’t sign up for Hulu then. Even worse
- kixiQu 4y ago
  You're not okay with recommendations? That's 80% of why many of us use Spotify in the first place.
  - ushakov 4y ago
    if that's what Spotify considers a recommendation, then I don't want any
    - gaws 4y ago
      Consider canceling Spotify then.
  - austinjp 4y ago
    80%? That doesn't include me. I'm a reluctant payer to avoid ads, and so I can play my choice of music anywhere.
- dahdum 4y ago
  Do you feel the same way about Netflix recommendations? I'm curious where you draw the line.
  - gsk22 4y ago
    Or YouTube? The homepage and literally every video are full of recommendations.
    - austinjp 4y ago
      Thanks to various plugins for Firefox, my experience of the YouTube homepage is a blank page apart from the search bar.
      - kjeetgill 4y ago
        That's so much worse than actually YouTube though. If I've been watching programming, physics, or history YouTube it absolutely surfaces excellent creators I'd have no other means of discovering. YouTube isn't Wikipedia. I don't go into it wanting a specific narrow thing. Like how do you even find content you'd like otherwise?
        austinjp 4y ago
        I do use it like Wikipedia, I guess. Or actually more like Google. I'm really not into doomscrolling "content". Life's too short.
        ryanmercer 4y ago
        Absolutely. I've found probably 20-30 great channels thanks to YouTube's recommendations successfully recommending me stuff I actually enjoy.
  - austinjp 4y ago
    I can't stand Netflix's interface, and it's recommendations are absolutely terrible. We're approaching the One True User Interface: search bar and recommendations. And it's awful.
- jrumbut 4y ago
  The recommendations were nice because it meant you didn't have to manually curate playlists while you're out and about (but you could still search out a specific track if you want to). I viewed them as part of the value of a subscription and didn't mind if they were promoting artists via homepage links and such. However, in just the last few weeks I've noticed the recommendations have gone from surfacing old favorites and interesting new (to me) music and is instead pushing stuff like that big podcast guy they signed.

ushakov 4y ago

i'm not okay with any promotions/recommendations as long as I'm paying for Premium

wyclif 4y ago
Correct. Is any Spotify user seriously going to maintain that "Premium" does not mean "no ads"?
- eminence32 4y ago
  Honestly, the only thing I care about is audio interruptions to my music. If a record label wants to pay spotify to place a text widget on my screen that says "check out this new album", I am OK with that because it's very ignorable. That is, what I'm paying for is "no audio interruptions".
rschachte 4y ago
Definitely don’t sign up for Hulu then. Even worse
kixiQu 4y ago
You're not okay with recommendations? That's 80% of why many of us use Spotify in the first place.
- ushakov 4y ago
  if that's what Spotify considers a recommendation, then I don't want any
  - gaws 4y ago
    Consider canceling Spotify then.
- austinjp 4y ago
  80%? That doesn't include me. I'm a reluctant payer to avoid ads, and so I can play my choice of music anywhere.
dahdum 4y ago
Do you feel the same way about Netflix recommendations? I'm curious where you draw the line.
- gsk22 4y ago
  Or YouTube? The homepage and literally every video are full of recommendations.
  - austinjp 4y ago
    Thanks to various plugins for Firefox, my experience of the YouTube homepage is a blank page apart from the search bar.
    - kjeetgill 4y ago
      That's so much worse than actually YouTube though. If I've been watching programming, physics, or history YouTube it absolutely surfaces excellent creators I'd have no other means of discovering. YouTube isn't Wikipedia. I don't go into it wanting a specific narrow thing. Like how do you even find content you'd like otherwise?
      - austinjp 4y ago
        I do use it like Wikipedia, I guess. Or actually more like Google. I'm really not into doomscrolling "content". Life's too short.
      - ryanmercer 4y ago
        Absolutely. I've found probably 20-30 great channels thanks to YouTube's recommendations successfully recommending me stuff I actually enjoy.
- austinjp 4y ago
  I can't stand Netflix's interface, and it's recommendations are absolutely terrible. We're approaching the One True User Interface: search bar and recommendations. And it's awful.
jrumbut 4y ago
The recommendations were nice because it meant you didn't have to manually curate playlists while you're out and about (but you could still search out a specific track if you want to). I viewed them as part of the value of a subscription and didn't mind if they were promoting artists via homepage links and such. However, in just the last few weeks I've noticed the recommendations have gone from surfacing old favorites and interesting new (to me) music and is instead pushing stuff like that big podcast guy they signed.