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  • Aatube@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world...So I Finally Quit Spotify
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    11 months ago

    Ugh, spotify soot again?

    At least according to spotify (it would probably be illegal for them to lie anyways), Spotify pays almost 70% of revenue to rights-holders (whoever distributes the thing, e.g. record labels), which means they take about the same cut as Steam. Good luck complaining about that.

    You often see people citing the $.003 per stream for rights-holders figure for Spotify. That’s not exactly what Spotify decides! Spotify pays rights-holders share of the 70% of the revenue based on how much they were streamed. TL;DR: Spotify pays rights-holders slices of pie based on how much their artists help bake. So, if artists aren’t getting payed enough, Spotify simply isn’t getting enough revenue despite reinventing radio for its free tier!

    Not to mention how certain rights-holders (fortunately not DistroKid) gobble royalties away from artists. And, the author’s solution to (insert @Nougat’s comment here)?

    (On a side note: I hate Tidal free, because it “doesn’t” have ads! Every single interruption I’ve encountered so far is the generic Tidal announcer telling me to subscribe to premium. Sometimes I even get a freaking video “ad” on cellular data telling me the same thing, and there are only 4 “ads” in total! There’s no variety! It’s just repeating! Aaaaaaaaa (dw just yelling me name














  • The reason was that it didn’t have enough users and it costed resources to maintain and develop (despite Mozilla’s- how many developers?- that needlessly removed GTK theming support from their apps). Personally I don’t like web apps due to their memory footprint, so for the only times I use them, I just search it up.

    I seriously do hate that Firefox is going to be my only option on a couple of months for ad blocking.

    It isn’t. uBO Lite and Adguard are already enough to block most ads since Google increased the adlist-without-extension-update-limits a bunch of times.

    As for all the forks out there, they usually don’t have a mobile equivalent to go with them so they’re only half decent to me.

    Waterfox recently launched their Android version