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Re:Spotify to trim 6% of workforce, content head to depart by silveroriole on Monday January 23, 2023 @09:18AM (#34488977)
I think the most amazing mistake Spotify made was that recently all private playlists suddenly became public, because they changed the meaning of private and public to introduce some weird third level of privacy. I now have no idea what the privacy settings do.

Second most amazing was when they made the scrollbar literally two pixels wide and therefore unusable.

It’s not even that these are huge errors but it just makes you wonder who drove those change and why? What on Earth are their teams up to when they’re prioritising those kinds of changes?

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Re:Spotify to trim 6% of workforce, content head to depart by EastSmith on Monday January 23, 2023 @09:34AM (#34489190)
WTF? I just checked all my private playlist are now public! WTF Spotify?!?
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Re:Spotify to trim 6% of workforce, content head to depart by silveroriole on Monday January 23, 2023 @09:49AM (#34489375)
They say that “public” means what “private” used to mean, “added to profile” means what “public” used to mean, and “private” now means that people can’t see the playlist at all even if they have a link to it. But it’s completely unclear which setting controls whether someone can search for the playlist by name and find it. I found out about this public/private change because I somehow got a subscriber to a playlist I’d thought was completely private, so I’m sure the previously private playlists actually did become more public without my permission…
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Re:Spotify to trim 6% of workforce, content head to depart by puszczyk on Monday January 23, 2023 @10:30AM (#34489954)
WTF!!! Same here, the playlists are now public
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Re:Spotify to trim 6% of workforce, content head to depart by mikhael28 on Monday January 23, 2023 @05:33PM (#34496077)
They probably made a good chunk selling your now public playlist music preferences to advertisers.
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Re:Spotify to trim 6% of workforce, content head to depart by mikhael28 on Monday January 23, 2023 @05:33PM (#34496072)
It's so they could sell your music preferences. You got got.
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Re:Spotify to trim 6% of workforce, content head to depart by joshl32532 on Monday January 23, 2023 @07:38PM (#34497371)
Damn, I just noticed all my playlists are public too.

Thanks for the heads up. And screw Spotify!

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