It’s the same deal every time I plug my phone in with Apple CarPlay with Spotify shoving podcasts in my face on the home screen. I’d rather not be subjected to it my music app, if it’s all the same with you Spotify. If I wanted to be preached at, I’d click the trending section of Twitter.

I didn’t want to be promoted to “educate yourself about voter suppression” when I’m just looking for a bit of pop punk to energise my morning a little bit.Īs worthy a talking point voter suppression is, most of us get plenty of that from the hellscape that is Twitter. Entering the home stretch before the weekend I just wanted to listen to some music from my music app. Whether it’s directly beneath my recently played items, or elsewhere throughout the app, I’m tired of it. Namely, due to its insistence of flooding the app with podcasts and constantly recommending them to me, in prominent positions. However, the streaming service had been testing my patience of late and I’m wondering whether this partnership is going to work long term.

If times were tough, I’ve always thought it’d be one of the last luxuries I’d cut out. In that time it’s mostly been tenner I spend every month. More than a decade, we’ve been married for. I’ve been a Spotify Premium subscriber since the upstart streaming company began offering them. The podcast spam has to stop, says a grumpy Chris Smith. The Spotify app has gone from showing listeners what they love, to ramming podcasts down their throats.

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