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Those podcast recommendations (i.e. advertisements) that appear as image tiles in their apps are annoying but avoidable. Recently they have started inserting r

• willhinsa 4y ago
  Ugh. How do these companies so thoroughly not understand their own raison d'être?
  • prepend 4y ago
    They understand that they make more money this way even if it pisses off customers. They’ve calculated that the customers who drop because of it is outweighed by the higher profits from playing podcasts.
    • counttheforks 4y ago
      I remember when they would prominently advertise Jordan Peterson right on the home page of their app. No other podcasts, just him over and over again while I've never used their app for anything other than music. I contacted their support to ask how to remove these advertisements from the product I paid for, and they told me that this was impossible. Impossible is a strong word, and installing https://github.com/spicetify https://github.com/spicetify proved that it was, in fact, possible to remove the ads for podcasts from their product.
  • conductr 4y ago
    > their own raison d'être It's growth, that's why they exist, searching for growth
    • willhinsa 4y ago
      Cancer has the same modus operandi.