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Fuck Subscriptions

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Naming and shaming all "recurring spending models" where a one-time fee (or none at all) would be appropriate and logical.

Expect use of strong language.

Follow the basic rules of lemmy.world and common sense, and try to have fun if possible.

No flamewars or attacking other users, unless they're spineless corporate shills.

Note that not all subscriptions are awful. Supporting your favorite ~~camgirl~~ creator or Lemmy server on Patreon is fine. An airbag with subscription is irl Idiocracy-level dystopian bullshit.

New community rule: Shilling for cunty corporations, their subscriptions and other anti-customer practices may result in a 1-day ban. It's so you can think about what it's like when someone can randomly decide what you can and can't use, based on some arbitrary rules. Oh what, you didn't read this fine print? You should read what you're agreeing to.

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Some other groovy communities for those who wish to own their products, their data and their life:

Right to Repair/Ownership

Hedges Development

Privacy

Privacy Guides

DeGoogle Yourself

F-Droid

Stallman Was Right

Some other useful links:

FreeMediaHeckYeah

Louis Rossman's YouTube channel

Look at content hosted at Big Tech without most of the nonsense:

Piped

Invidious

Nitter

Teddit

 

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I killed my Spotify account when they started shoveling millions of dollars at Joe Rogan, and everything they've done since then only confirms I made the right call.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Search for something called “Spicetify” and make sure to install the marketplace as well for more addons.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This one is actually out of their hands. Lyrics aren't free sadly and they have to pay for API calls. It's fucking stupid but the labels are the ones at fault here.

Fuck Spotify nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Unless there's some agreement / licensing thing prohibiting it, and considering that lyrics don't change, they should be able to do some caching for a total of 1 API call per song

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Not sure why you got downvoted.. storing text isn’t a lot of data, they can easily do it once per song and wrap it up.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Surely the cost of lyrics (regardless of fetching API or royalties with caching) are miniscule compared to the other costs.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I don't get it. They are complaning that their limited free plan is limited?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you want Spotify for free and lyrics for free, just Google the lyrics...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

fuck off, it's not that simple. Spotify you can't just play whatever and also you can skip like 5 songs per hour or whatever the fuck. Charging for lyrics is fucking ridiculous and you saying just google it isn't any better.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Spotify you can't just play whatever and also you can skip like 5 songs per hour or whatever the fuck.

Okay? That has literally nothing to do with getting lyrics for free...

Charging for lyrics is fucking ridiculous and you saying just google it isn't any better.

The people are entitled to their free music and free lyrics right in the same spot. Having to do a single Google search to get those lyrics is inconceivable!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

While I mostly agree, there is a difference. In Spotify, you can play a song and it highlights the lyrics as they are sung

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Not always, only if they're synced.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

This is just some nerd looking to be angry.

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