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The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed (www.honest-broker.com)

submitted 1 day ago by DeadNinja@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] mattd@programming.dev 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When some employees expressed concerns about this, Spotify managers replied (according to Pelly’s sources) that “listeners wouldn’t know the difference.”

Insulting your users, that always works out so well

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Insulting the artists too. Just like when Daniel Ek said that the "content" on Spotify was "basically free" to make.