I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a “sponsored recommendation”.

Why am I seeing ads if I’m already paying for the premium plan!? 😑

  • HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The whole notion of “If you’re not the product, then you’re the product” died a while ago.

    Now, you’re paying for the product, and you continue to be the product.

    Paying for the product = monthly/yearly subscription You’re the product = unique identifiers, data mining/harvesting, tracked across the web, etc. Perhaps even training some AI models in the background, too.