Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero'

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Spotify announces price hike, right after CEO enrages music fans by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero'
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I hope people just switch to something else or start self-hosting their own music.

AOL profited for over a decade on people who signed up for the service and simply lost track of it, paying month after month for something they'd forgotten they even had.

Crazy that these services can just raise premiums whenever they please without even reaffirming that the customer still wants the service. I guarantee that if you needed to re-verify your account on a price increase, firms with big client pools would never raise their rates again.

And now when you card expires, they just change the expiration date on your existing number a few times until it works to keep the subscription going, and that's somehow legal.

Does the CVV number on credit cards not change when they're renewed in the USA? Or can companies still somehow charge cards without an up-to-date CVV?

They sometimes have an agreement to update the card after expiry