According to the report, Spotify will raise its standard subscription rate by $1 next week, bringing the monthly cost from $9.99 to $10.99.

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    Well yeah, reflecting on what you’re saying i think any recommendation on the home page is an ad. But I agree the podcasts are more intrusive, especially if you never listen to them.

    Why don’t you just stick to the search or library tab if you don’t want the recommendations on the home page? Ideally they’d have an option to set the default tab, but if you don’t want any recommendations they’re pretty easy to avoid

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      1 year ago

      Why don’t you just stick to the search or library tab if you don’t want the recommendations on the home page?

      Oh my gods, are you joking? When I launch the app on my android device, it defaults to the homepage. I’ve actually contacted Spotify about this and there is no way to change this, so in what fictional fantasy world are you living that I can “just stick to the search or library tab” when literally launching the app defaults to the homescreen? Am I talking to a bot?

      if you don’t want any recommendations they’re pretty easy to avoid

      Oh sure, let me use uBlock Origin to just zap all these shelves. Oh wait, now I can’t see any albums.

      I’m not talking out my ass here, so I’d appreciate it if you just let me vent about how shitty Spotify is with their crappy features that are unable to be customized in any way. Why not? BECAUSE THEY ARE USING IT TO ADVERTISE, EVEN THOUGH I’M PAYING A SUBSCRIPTION. I DO NOT want ads, no shelves, no recommendations, no algorithm, and honestly? Maybe I just don’t want Spotify. They don’t even pay artists that much anyway, so I could just as well pirate like I do for movies and shows ever since Netflix went wack.

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        Sorry, I didn’t realize you were just trying to vent. I agree that they should have some kind of option to default to a different tab, or some better solution. They do a lot of shitty and annoying stuff as a company. But also, it’s not really a fictional world to just stick to those tabs, it’s more like an extra tap once the app opens. You might even be able to set up a tasker thing or something like smart autoclicker on fdroid to immediately switch tabs as soon as the app opens