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Re:Spotify has shut down several API endpoints by mrweasel on Friday November 29, 2024 @12:42PM (#42275515)
If you pay for the service, there should be no ads, so that's not an issue. As for artists trying to push their own listing ratio, why would that matter, If I pay $20 per month and play Taylor Swift 24/7 she'd get 100% of the money, minus the 10-20% to run the service, so that's attempting to pump up your own numbers would cause be a money losing exercise.

DRM, yeah okay, valid reason.

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Re:Spotify has shut down several API endpoints by mschuster91 on Friday November 29, 2024 @02:36PM (#42276425)
> If you pay for the service, there should be no ads, so that's not an issue.

IIRC, at least Netflix and Spotify have a "pay less, but get some ads" tiers, and YouTube doesn't want SponsorBlock et al to impact the golden geese too much.

> As for artists trying to push their own listing ratio, why would that matter

People have scammed streaming services for millions of dollars [1]. Sure, at their scale it's peanuts, but still eyewatering sums of money for normal people.

[1] https://www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-ai/the-10-million-spotify-s...

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