Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs

BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• orclev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think it’s more that most people just aren’t aware of any equivalent alternatives, or in some cases like where there literally aren’t any alternatives. Look at phones, both Apple and Google suck and their mobile OSes are terrible but what’s the alternative? Sure there’s a few Linux phones out there and that’s almost an alternative but it’s not there yet. You could go with a “dumb” phone, but for most people that’s not going to work. So you pick your lesser evil and bitch about it whenever the latest round of enshitification hits.

  If you asked most people what alternatives exist for Spotify they’d probably say Pandora, and maybe Apple Music or Youtube Music and then struggle to come up with anything else. The better alternatives are suffering from a massive discovery problem.

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What’s an example of an alternative with a really great recommendation algorithm?

    Things like recommendation algorithms are difficult for small companies/individuals to provide. Lets alone the library of music.

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    • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No algorithm but buying physical media again is one path.

      A few months ago I got a couple CDs and I’m hoping to rebuild my collection and get off Spotify. It supports artists better, and YouTube is still there to help discover new music.

      Buy a CD a month instead of your service. A roll back for technology of course, but worth trying imo

      Our musician are getting fucked with streaming services

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Since you asked, in the US at least I would say Tidal’s is quite good. Not a small company, but an alternative.

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    • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Plexamp does a pretty good job with the radio features, granted you will have to torrent stuff you’re not necessarily familiar with first. If you have a few friends who also share their music libraries with you it can really help by including their tracks in your radios.

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      • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Wait, PlexAmp allows for multiple libraries?

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• workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  People don’t care to help fight the war on drugs

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  • pineapplepizza@lemm.ee ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Legal drugs should not be advertised either. Drugs or other treatments should be prescribed by a doctor based on a review of the actual symptoms and side effects to the patient. A drug advertisement will generally tell you the key words to tell the doctor and may be missing other factors.

    I have symptoms C, L and Q. What treatment plan will be best. Vs. I want drug X because I have symptoms X Y and Z.

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    • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, I agree. And based on your belief, if you said you are absolutely destroyed that people were watching network television when pharmaceutical companies were advertising on those channels, I would think that that’s an overreaction. If you said that the viewers just didn’t care about other people’s well-being or about society, I would also disagree with that conclusion.

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean I think there’s nothing wrong with advertising OTC meds, which is also legal here. Might sometimes let you know about a product you didn’t know existed at all, common ones being gas relief drugs and joint pain creams.

      Advertising prescription meds is just weird, feels very wrong, and I don’t understand how some countries don’t ban it.

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• Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why would people here care that much about this? This kind of material exists on any site that allows user submitted content, and the only solution is aggressive automated moderation, which winds up hurting everyday users. Would you prefer that anyone who uploads a song or podcast that names a drug be automatically removed and have to be manually approved?

  These are low-effort scams to steal credit card numbers, it doesn’t seem like any of these had an actual avenue to purchase drugs. They should be removed for sure, but this is hardly some wild breach of responsibility.

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