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!? 😑

  • rubikcuberEnglish
    1951·
    1 year ago

    If you’re not paying you are the product. If you ARE paying you are STILL the product. This is how big tech works.

    • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      455·
      1 year ago

      Basically every computer hardware manufacturer is collecting telemetry and sending it home. If you’re using MacOS or Windows, your OS is doing it aswell

      • essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
        221·
        1 year ago

        Or Android, or iOS, or a Chromebook, or whatever other OS you’re using next year, if it isn’t some sort of Linux/UNIX system… and even some of those might not be great, but at least you can find out.

        • panCatE@lemm.eeEnglish
          9·
          1 year ago

          Tbh i have used linux on my home pc for years now and now they are very polished products , except most corporate apps are not there !

        • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
          105·
          1 year ago

          I mean… Android and ChromeOS are Linux underneath. MacOS is… related to Unix. Hang on, I need to look up that lineage…

          Also Lineage.

          Edit: MacOS used/uses the Mach kernel, and uses code “derived from BSD”, vague as Wikipedia is. That could mean it’s a whole copy-paste or that it just borrows ideas from BSD.

          • panCatE@lemm.eeEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            It has a history in the US anti trust (when the laws really worked)

          • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            MacOS has userland tools from some FreeBSD version (quite obsolete, IIRC). Also there’s a port of bhyve called xhyve for MacOS. Its kernel I wouldn’t expect to have much in common with BSDs.

    • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
      28·
      1 year ago

      You become the product with name, address, and payment details attached to the account for improved demographic data for them to collect. Win win.

    • jarfil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      But you’re paying for the GOOD recommendations now, not the free bad ones… /s

    • Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      That’s not how big tech works, it’s how DRM works. It is possible to sell music/games/movies in an ethical way, without DRM.