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What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by mastermind@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] techtalkf@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Printer Ink and paying companies like Google and Spotify, who still collect your data as a paid customer.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Paying Spotify and still getting adverts.

At that point I decided that Spotify wasn't for me anymore.

[–] P1r4nha@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You get ads?

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's now been a while since I used Spotify, so no idea what it's like now. I started to get Spotify inserted adverts when listening to podcasts. After a month or so of getting adverts I stopped my subscription and moved to other sources of audio entertainment.

I paid for Spotify primarily to get away from adverts, secondly it was more convenient than being on the wavey seas with my parrot, black flag, and wooden leg.

[–] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's weird to me that people use Spotify for podcasts, a free medium established 10-15 years before Spotify even added them as a feature. Why not just use one of the free podcast apps that actually are mature and also designed for podcasts to begin with?

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

I started with podcasts on Spotify because of the exclusivity of JRE. I listened to his podcasts because of the variety of guests, not for him.