Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness

Re:Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness by acwan93 on Monday October 12, 2020 @11:07PM (#24761865)

> I posit that nobody in any of these orgs deeply cares about music.

Or fitness, or messaging, or movies, or TV shows...

Every platform nowadays is a way to lock you in. Strava makes exporting data exceptionally difficult and has API rate-limits. I’m sure there’s a technical reason, but still sucks.

One of the tech journalists I follow has advocated the need for legislation for data portability to avoid shenanigans like Spotify has. Much like the phone number portability in the mid-2000s or interoperability after Ma-Bell AT&T was broken up, it sometimes takes legislation to enforce an open Internet. I think GDPR was one of the first steps towards that.

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Re:Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness by RandallBrown on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @12:12AM (#24762207)

I don't know when the last time you checked was, but downloading your data from Strava is very easy.

https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918437-Expor...

I just downloaded all my data and it only took about 5 minutes for them to send me the link. (I have about a year of data.)

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Re:Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness by acwan93 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @09:44AM (#24765477)

Oh nice! I haven’t tried to in a while, and have only seen it recently with services that connect to Strava.

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