I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a “sponsored recommendation”.

Why am I seeing ads if I’m already paying for the premium plan!? 😑

    • akulium@feddit.deEnglish
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      11 months ago

      If there is any company that can do personalized ads for music then it is Spotify. It’s what they are best at, why would they skip that opportunity?

    • traveler@lemdro.idEnglish
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      11 months ago

      It’s both, it’s an ad plus a since you like X, try Y.

      One thing very harmful that may come from this, is that they can use this system as well in the auto-play feature, so artists who pay more to Spotify will be auto-played more when you’re listening to music.

      Afaik is not happening yet, but it will.