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That’s a crazy reason to drop using Spotify
by eddtries 3y ago
That’s a crazy reason to drop using Spotify
- constantly 3y agoPeople have different priorities. It didn’t cause me to drop music subscriptions, but did cause me to switch to Apple Music.
- ghaff 3y agoNot that Apple Music is God's gift to UI, but I prefer to keep my podcasts and my music separate and I don't want recommendations to be pushed on me.
- madeofpalk 3y agoIt's crazy to stop using a product because it's UI got worse by pushing content you don't want at the expense of what you do want? Ignoring the Joe Rogan of it all - it's frustrating to open spotify to listen to music and it the page is full of overly produced podcasts instead. I think that's a pretty normal reason to not like a product.
- sdflhasjd 3y agoI didn't switch because of Joe Rogan, but Spotify kept changing the UI and at some point it got so annoying to browse music over the crappy podcasts being shoved in my face that I switched to Tidal.
- 10729287 3y agoSome people just put their money where their mouth is
- maxglute 3y agoI stopped my sub after Rogan AND Peterson pinned on my homescreen, and it just wasn't worth any drama it could stir with how often spotify is passively open. I like me the occasional Rogan, but Peterson is not someone I want to associate with, especially where I am, who I'm generally with, even accidentally. Like it's just dumb shit design for no good reason. It was enough of an issue that I remember multiple support threads topics at the time. Switched to plexamp for a while. Half a year later, I'm free riding off someones spare family plan slot.
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- whiddershins 3y agoAre you saying in your social circle if someone sees Jordan Peterson on your Spotify Home Screen you are concerned this would create “drama?”
- J_Shelby_J 3y agoIf I had Spotify open and Peterson was pinned to my Home Screen in an office setting, I’d be embarrassed. It would be a strong signal of a lack of education that could harm my professional career.
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- gardenhedge 3y agoSounds like you work in a toxic workplace
- coldpie 3y agoI would definitely give someone the side-eye if I saw Peterson or Rogan on their phone, yeah.
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- jiveturkey42 3y agoSame reason I stopped buying Apple products - they shoved U2 into my iTunes library
- the_snooze 3y agoIt's not that crazy. Not Rogan-specific, but the podcast-first UI prioritization made Spotify on CarPlay a pain in the ass to use. There was no option to say, "No thanks, just give me music only going forward." Spotify clearly didn't want to serve my needs (i.e., to access music quickly), so I took my business elsewhere.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>That’s a crazy reason to drop using Spotify That's like saying people dropping Windows 11 for pushing Candy Crush and TikTok in the start menu si crazy. Is it really crazy? I don't think so. If I'm a paying customer I want to be treated with respect. If you keep making my UX worse to push your own agenda I WILL drop you for the HDD of "definitely legit" MP3s ready to go.
- andsoitis 3y ago> That's like saying people dropping Windows 11 for pushing Candy Crush and TikTok in the start menu si crazy. That's not the right comparison. You don't buy the OS for entertainment recommendations and listening/viewing/playing/reading.
- bluefirebrand 3y agoI'm probably not the common usecase but I don't use Spotify for recommendations either. I hate recommendation engines in software. One of the first things I always turn off when I install Spotify is the "When we finish your playlist we'll just keep playing similar music we think you'll like" option. All I use Spotify for is to save myself the trouble of maintaining a media server and tracking down all the music I like to put on it
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>You don't buy the OS for entertainment recommendations and listening/viewing/playing/reading. Huh? I definitely use my OS for entertainment but I don't want it to shove their own content in my face, same how I don't want that from Spotify. If I want to discover new content, I'll explicitly seek it out, otherwise GTF out of my way and play my songs.
- epicide 3y agoBy itself, sure. It's a litmus test of sorts. It's kinda like how I judge most for-profit businesses based on the checkout experience. Usually (there are certainly valid exceptions), the process of me giving them money is what I expect to be the best experience I will ever have with that company. Am I going to refuse to shop at a store simply because nobody cared about a payment process? No, not unless it's particularly painful or damaging to me in some way. However, it's certainly a red flag and a warning that the rest of my interactions with them aren't likely to be better. Same with the case here. If the landing page for a service product is so heavily pushing particular content in place of actually being useful for them, that's a pretty big red flag. tl;dr by itself, it's a silly reason to drop it, but it can definitely reveal where business priorities currently lie.
- AdamN 3y agoWhy not? I don't have time for many ads and will go to great lengths to get rid of them - especially ones I don't like. With Spotify this is even easier because there are a number of replacements available.
- eddtries 3y agoI think I'm using a different app to the rest of these commenters, I don't have anything as bad as people are talking about. Or do people just use the free version of the app?
- sercand 3y agoI dropped Spotify when they started to push more podcasts on my home feed as well.