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Re:Joe Rogan’s podcast is becoming a Spotify exclusive by petercooper on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:37PM (#23239170)
I also think this is a bad move, but to play devil's advocate for a moment.. if this deal had meant that the show became ad-free (it's not), would that be preferable to it being open but with ads?

I only ask because I think some people here might say yes, though I personally think the importance of being open and using open protocols like RSS supersedes the business model.

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Re:Joe Rogan’s podcast is becoming a Spotify exclusive by css on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:41PM (#23239216)
I don't care about ads, I care about walled gardens. Especially walled gardens that are designed to spy on you.
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Re:Joe Rogan’s podcast is becoming a Spotify exclusive by tracker1 on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @08:01PM (#23241811)
That being the case, which is worse, youtube or spotify in this case?
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Re:Joe Rogan’s podcast is becoming a Spotify exclusive by jzoch on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @11:07PM (#23242920)
its a podcast. It just also is published on youtube. Listen to it via RSS on a podcast app and thats my choice.
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Re:Joe Rogan’s podcast is becoming a Spotify exclusive by eozoon on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:22AM (#23244870)
> The JRE will debut on Spotify on September 1, 2020, and become exclusively available on the platform later this year.

The RSS podcast part will also be gone later in the year. I don't really listen to Joe Rogan's show, but I feel this is a very bad move for a "podcast" and am very said that a very prominent show decides to do this..

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Re:Joe Rogan’s podcast is becoming a Spotify exclusive by eozoon on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:19AM (#23244854)
Open with ads is better than add free but walled for me as well.

But it doesn't have to be mutually exclusive, they could have put ad-free version on (paid) Spotify, ad version everywhere else.

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Re:Joe Rogan’s podcast is becoming a Spotify exclusive by Barrin92 on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:14PM (#23239600)
That's like choosing between the plague and cholera. I'm not really a personal fan of Sam Harris but I have to say I approve of his way of running his podcast. Charge people some money and send them an RSS link.
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