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I get ads in my youtube premium music. The support just said "yes". I now pay for spotify so I don't get ads in music and still youtube premium for no ads in y

by mianos 2y ago

I get ads in my youtube premium music. The support just said "yes". I now pay for spotify so I don't get ads in music and still youtube premium for no ads in youtube documentaries. The second I start seeing regular ads I'll drop dropping them as fast as I can clickety click. In a fury, I also managed to cancel all of our work google accounts. Only a few hundred but if enough do maybe someone at google might look up from their leetcode puzzle and listen to a customer.

andrewinardeer 2y ago
I get ads on Premium Spotify while listening to Joe Rogan. Serves me right, I guess.
- piva00 2y ago
  There were always ads on podcasts, Spotify Premium never promised no ads for podcasts.
copperroof 2y ago
There’s no chance anyone at google will ever listen to a customer.
- hackit2 2y ago
  They're not the customer they're the product, their customer is clients who purchase advertisement space.
  - selcuka 2y ago
    > They're not the customer they're the product If you are a free Gmail/YouTube/etc user, sure. But a company who pays for a couple hundred Google Mail users is definitely a customer: > I also managed to cancel all of our work google accounts.
    - worik 2y ago
      > But a company who pays for a couple hundred Google Mail users is definitely a customer: I see your point But I think it should say: "But a company who pays for a couple hundred Google Mail users is a sucker"
      - selcuka 2y ago
        Why so? You don't see ads in Google's enterprise products. The GP cancelled their business subscription because of an issue with their personal account. Also it's a very good product and the competition is Microsoft, which is not much better.
  - kelnos 2y ago
    As a paying YouTube Premium subscriber, they damn well better consider me a customer.
    - sebazzz 2y ago
      You are a customer who bought then advertising space to keep it blank.
- redundantly 2y ago
  Their end users aren't the customer. Of course they won't listen to them. Their customers are the ones that pay for ads and buys end user data.
solarkraft 2y ago
You’ll have fun with the occasional „recommendation“ pop-ups Spotify shows to paying subscribers. Did you know you can pay them to rank higher in the algorithm and that a lot of the big playlists do the same?
- mianos 2y ago
  Luckily, I don't really find a lot of the recommendations bad. Maybe it's my bad taste in music.
- piva00 2y ago
  > Did you know you can pay them to rank higher in the algorithm I can't find this info on Spotify for Artists, care to share where exactly they offer this service?
  - solarkraft 2y ago
    It’s called discovery mode: https://artists.spotify.com/discovery-mode https://artists.spotify.com/discovery-mode
hedora 2y ago
Spotify is actively trying to enshittify the podcast ecosystem, so you’ve jumped from one bad actor to another. I’ve found that Apple Music and Tidal are both superior to it anyway (and you can automatically move your library between those three services, and more). I prefer Tidal because the recommendations are ridiculously good for niche genres. I think they take things like producers, labels, etc into account.

by mianos 2y ago

andrewinardeer 2y ago

I get ads on Premium Spotify while listening to Joe Rogan. Serves me right, I guess.

piva00 2y ago
There were always ads on podcasts, Spotify Premium never promised no ads for podcasts.

copperroof 2y ago

There’s no chance anyone at google will ever listen to a customer.

hackit2 2y ago
They're not the customer they're the product, their customer is clients who purchase advertisement space.
- selcuka 2y ago
  > They're not the customer they're the product If you are a free Gmail/YouTube/etc user, sure. But a company who pays for a couple hundred Google Mail users is definitely a customer: > I also managed to cancel all of our work google accounts.
  - worik 2y ago
    > But a company who pays for a couple hundred Google Mail users is definitely a customer: I see your point But I think it should say: "But a company who pays for a couple hundred Google Mail users is a sucker"
    - selcuka 2y ago
      Why so? You don't see ads in Google's enterprise products. The GP cancelled their business subscription because of an issue with their personal account. Also it's a very good product and the competition is Microsoft, which is not much better.
- kelnos 2y ago
  As a paying YouTube Premium subscriber, they damn well better consider me a customer.
  - sebazzz 2y ago
    You are a customer who bought then advertising space to keep it blank.
redundantly 2y ago
Their end users aren't the customer. Of course they won't listen to them. Their customers are the ones that pay for ads and buys end user data.

solarkraft 2y ago

You’ll have fun with the occasional „recommendation“ pop-ups Spotify shows to paying subscribers. Did you know you can pay them to rank higher in the algorithm and that a lot of the big playlists do the same?

mianos 2y ago
Luckily, I don't really find a lot of the recommendations bad. Maybe it's my bad taste in music.
piva00 2y ago
> Did you know you can pay them to rank higher in the algorithm I can't find this info on Spotify for Artists, care to share where exactly they offer this service?
- solarkraft 2y ago
  It’s called discovery mode: https://artists.spotify.com/discovery-mode https://artists.spotify.com/discovery-mode

hedora 2y ago

Spotify is actively trying to enshittify the podcast ecosystem, so you’ve jumped from one bad actor to another. I’ve found that Apple Music and Tidal are both superior to it anyway (and you can automatically move your library between those three services, and more). I prefer Tidal because the recommendations are ridiculously good for niche genres. I think they take things like producers, labels, etc into account.