Is Spotify spying on my Rdio activity?

Posted by mendozao on Friday January 17, 2014 @07:53PM
from the creativaldo.tumblr.com dept.

http://creativaldo.tumblr.com/post/73662726109/is-spotify-spying-on-my-rdio-activity

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Re:Is Spotify spying on my Rdio activity? by ricardojr on Friday January 17, 2014 @08:04PM (#7079553)

The only thing I could think of is that Rdio or any ad-network is sharing information with a 3rd party and that 3rd party pushing the info to Spotify. The other way is through your social network like activity. Did you "like" the band on Rdio?

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Re:Is Spotify spying on my Rdio activity? by Aaronn on Saturday January 18, 2014 @05:00PM (#7082422)

Rdio has public listening history built in: http://www.rdio.com/people/[INSERT USERNAME]/history/

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Re:Is Spotify spying on my Rdio activity? by mendozao on Saturday January 18, 2014 @06:40PM (#7082758)

Why would rdio make this information public? It seems like really valuable information that they are just freely allowing to get scraped

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Re:Is Spotify spying on my Rdio activity? by mendozao on Saturday January 18, 2014 @06:30PM (#7082724)

ah ha! this has to be it..

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Re:Is Spotify spying on my Rdio activity? by mendozao on Friday January 17, 2014 @08:08PM (#7079563)

I didn't "like" the band, I just listened to their stuff normally. Since Spotify runs natively, I wonder if they have a way to access browser information

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Re:Is Spotify spying on my Rdio activity? by ricardojr on Friday January 17, 2014 @11:11PM (#7080042)

I say spend some time trying to re-create it. Maybe some activity within Spotify itself triggered the email.

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Re:Is Spotify spying on my Rdio activity? by pianoben on Friday January 17, 2014 @11:15PM (#7080056)

Do you have Radio connected to Facebook? It posts stuff you listen to if you do; that could easily explain how Spotify got the information...

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Re:Is Spotify spying on my Rdio activity? by mendozao on Saturday January 18, 2014 @06:30PM (#7082723)

I do have Rdio connected to fb, however it isn't posting anything on my fb wall

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Re:Is Spotify spying on my Rdio activity? by climatewarrior2 on Friday January 17, 2014 @09:59PM (#7079850)

I wouldn't be surprised at all if they were indeed spying. But it might been pure coincidence. Can anybody from Spotify or Rdio shed some light?

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