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Re:Spotify halved build times with just one script by mostlysimilar on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @01:40PM (#21336944)
Why do they do this? It seems every update the Spotify client becomes less and less useful.
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Re:Spotify halved build times with just one script by Konnstann on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:07PM (#21337204)
Money, most likely. Removing or obfuscating user choice allows them to push you towards content that they curate themselves, presumably to pay fewer royalties or something similar. I kind of ignored it until they started removing dislike options, at some point not even having hulu bundled will stop me from switching to a competitor.
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Re:Spotify halved build times with just one script by armatav on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @07:14PM (#21340063)
or, you know, maintenance cost in hours/developer.
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