"Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?

ojmcelderry@lemmy.one to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 1417 points –

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!? 😑

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It's kind of like a hub, where you can download and update modded Spotify.

In the modded Spotify, you have all the benefits of a premium account and actually more because the modded version provides its own benefit, minus downloading.

I'm scared of using that tbh, cause last time I used a modde version of Spotify (simply the tablet apk on android so it would let me play individual songs), they found out and sent me an email saying that they have the rights to delete my account and my playlists if it were to happen again.

Make an alt account, and follow your playlists of your main account :)