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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by RheingoldRiver on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:31PM (#34606382)
Don't take this in the wrong way, but how do you find last.fm usable anymore? Do you run noscript on it? Do you pay for it? I haven't been able to go there in like 5 years since they injected a billion ads and made your personal scrobble history practically unusable (you have to pay to search it????).

This thread has prompted me to export my history to csv since that's the only way I track what I listen to and I struggle a lot to remember the names of albums I like so I really want to be able to group & sort by playcount, and I miss the old last.fm so very, very, very much. But I absolutely will not pay for a site that ate my data for years and now holds it hostage (especially when I myself am the product).

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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by woodruffw on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:35PM (#34606410)
No offense taken! I use uBlock and whatever else I have in my browser, plus I block a lot of things at the DNS level. So far that's left it moderately usable; the only part I really interact with is the index page, though, and occasionally checking my own profile to make sure I'm still scrobbling.
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