How I cancelled my Spotify subscription

I'm not gonna go into why Spotify is bad. I assume if you're reading this you are vaguely aware that Spotify is bad and feel a bit guilty for using it anyway. It's convenient. It's what you're used to. It's nice to have whatever music you wanna listen to just there, across all your devices. (ok ok, let's have a sidebar on why they're bad. They bad because you pay them money or listen to ads, and then they take that money and they pay it to their founder (who is evil), or to the other shareholders (ie, the record labels who got sweetheart deals early on), or to Joe Rogan (do I need a parenthesis here), or on developing AI music generation features. And a little bit to the artists you actually care about, but less than any of their competitors.) So what should you do instead? Well the straightforward choice would be to instead subscribe to one of their competitors. I hear good things about Tidal! But the systemic structure is still the same, even if artists get paid a little more. It's…

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