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I just love watching everyone freak out about Spotify’s shitty business practices while I’m casually looping YouTube videos with an adblocker.

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There are some add-ons that turn off the video to avoid wasting energy.

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But they still waste the bandwidth. The YouTube music either premium or revanced is still the “most economical” way.

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I’m not sure if the bandwidth is wasted or not with those add-ons.

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To be fair, Spotify is unsuable without premium.

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Spotify is unusable without premium Xmanager

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Is what someone would say if they didn’t know any better.

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It does make sense though since Spotify has to pay musixmatch for the service.

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Solid business decision by Spotify here, I support this move. I’ll probably switch over to them from YouTube music.

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I know right. What’s Spotify’s goal with this move

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What’s Spotify’s goal with this move

Get people to pay for premium…

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So someone can ignore the ads, ignore not being able to chose a song, and ignore no download. But having to open musixmatch in a separate app is the straw that broke the camels back

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The goal is that now that they’ve been caught pirating lyrics, they have to pay MusixMatch for their lyrics, perhaps on a per request basis, so they lose money by making it available.

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