I'm a paid subscriber. I'm paying for the product, and therefore I shouldn't have to be the product.
The Wired article suggests that Spotify are only offering a binary choice: allow the little Spotify creep to squat on my phone taking notes on me, or stop using the service altogether. Are those really my only options?
I just uninstalled it and am going to cancel my account in a few minutes. I pay money for it too so that I don't have to sell my personal info and that of my friends.
I just did the same and so did a couple of my friends. Sometimes a zero tolerance, knee-jerk reaction is the best reaction to this sort of thing.
I just want to stream music that I want to listen to. That's it. I don't want any social features, I don't want my play list being generated automatically by my heart rate, etc.
I'm currently in the process of downloading the music I saved in my Spotify playlist (through a laptop). The mobile app is already uninstalled. Now all I need to do is to download those songs and delete my account.
On my Android, ToS still date as of July 8, 2014 so I guess this is still being discussed. I'll wait to see how it pans out but I'll seriously consider cancelling my subscription on principle if this goes through.
Apparently. I guess we'll learn soon enough whether a large enough percentage of their customers care or are educated enough to care. Sadly, the answer nothing will probably come of this.
The Wired article suggests that Spotify are only offering a binary choice: allow the little Spotify creep to squat on my phone taking notes on me, or stop using the service altogether. Are those really my only options?
I'm an email-only user (no Facebook for me).