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The hour's getting late for being able to easily avoid this sort of bullshit. It's time to gather what you can, save it locally, and then shift to physical medi

The hour's getting late for being able to easily avoid this sort of bullshit. It's time to gather what you can, save it locally, and then shift to physical media. DVDs, books, etc.

bmitc 2y ago
Yea, I've been looking into what to do. I'm tired of subscription fees for one, although Spotify has remained sane. But I absolutely refuse to pay trillion dollar corporations more money, who already steal my data, just to get rid of ads. If they kept them reasonable, it'd be fine. But nearly all of the UX/UI additions are not to make the experience better but to make you click more videos and ads. There are even times that you can't even see the last few seconds of a video because it pops up clickable things that can't be disabled.
- jzb 2y ago
  Isn't Spotify about to raise its fees again for the second time in about two years? I dropped it a while back after the whole podcast push. Not (solely) because I'm not a fan of the people they chose to fund, but because they penny pinch on music royalties but wanted to shower podcasters with money -- I signed up for music, not podcasts! Spotify was easy (for me) to replace: I have a huge music collection already. YouTube would be tougher because I mostly rely on it for video clips I wouldn't be able to find elsewhere, except maybe Archive.org.
  - dingnuts 2y ago
    I returned to buying albums when a few that I loved disappeared off Spotify one day. It's bad enough to pay month after month and never own anything but to go listen to a favorite and find it's gone? Unacceptable. At my age I'll never average buying more than one album a month anyway, especially since you can usually hear it first on bandcamp or YouTube so it's not a gamble like the old record store days, so it isn't even more expensive
rchaud 2y ago
Physical media and one-time payment desktop software are the only enshittification-proof types of digital products left. I used to love the Google Music app, which did nothing besides play my locally stored music. Then one day I opened it and it had turned into yet another storefront constantly using mobile data to refresh the carousel. Since then, auto-updates have been turned off. I love being able to reject app updates. Once the app does what I want, updates can only make it worse.

The hour's getting late for being able to easily avoid this sort of bullshit. It's time to gather what you can, save it locally, and then shift to physical media. DVDs, books, etc.

bmitc 2y ago

Yea, I've been looking into what to do. I'm tired of subscription fees for one, although Spotify has remained sane. But I absolutely refuse to pay trillion dollar corporations more money, who already steal my data, just to get rid of ads. If they kept them reasonable, it'd be fine. But nearly all of the UX/UI additions are not to make the experience better but to make you click more videos and ads. There are even times that you can't even see the last few seconds of a video because it pops up clickable things that can't be disabled.

jzb 2y ago
Isn't Spotify about to raise its fees again for the second time in about two years? I dropped it a while back after the whole podcast push. Not (solely) because I'm not a fan of the people they chose to fund, but because they penny pinch on music royalties but wanted to shower podcasters with money -- I signed up for music, not podcasts! Spotify was easy (for me) to replace: I have a huge music collection already. YouTube would be tougher because I mostly rely on it for video clips I wouldn't be able to find elsewhere, except maybe Archive.org.
- dingnuts 2y ago
  I returned to buying albums when a few that I loved disappeared off Spotify one day. It's bad enough to pay month after month and never own anything but to go listen to a favorite and find it's gone? Unacceptable. At my age I'll never average buying more than one album a month anyway, especially since you can usually hear it first on bandcamp or YouTube so it's not a gamble like the old record store days, so it isn't even more expensive

rchaud 2y ago

Physical media and one-time payment desktop software are the only enshittification-proof types of digital products left. I used to love the Google Music app, which did nothing besides play my locally stored music. Then one day I opened it and it had turned into yet another storefront constantly using mobile data to refresh the carousel. Since then, auto-updates have been turned off. I love being able to reject app updates. Once the app does what I want, updates can only make it worse.