Programmatic advertising should be forbidden on state level. It is a vector in malvertising and misinformation (and thus is a danger to demcracies) and makes the user-experience worse in everything it touches.
Spotify debuts Gen AI ads, programmatic ad buying
Submitted 1 day ago by myedition8@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/03/spotify-debuts-gen-ai-ads-programmatic-ad-buying
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
heavydust@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
malvertising and misinformation
You pretty much described most ads. What is the difference?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
That your “most ads” are programmatic advertising.
oshu@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve been a Spotify subscriber since 2012 and every year it has gotten worse and worse in term of UX.
I think this is the year I quit and go back to buying and ripping CDs.
Muffi@programming.dev 1 day ago
Tidal is pretty good except for the lack of podcasts. AntennaPod replaced that feature for me and made the switch easy.
oshu@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Lack of podcasts is a plus for me. Thanks for the suggestion.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 23 hours ago
Hehe I switched to the exact same things last year. Didn’t regret it.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
And no “AI” was involved…
drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 1 day ago
So glad I canceled my sub holy fuck.
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 1 day ago
You guys get ads on Spotify? HahahaYarrrr
fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
We gave up Winamp for this.
fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Before you comment I’m begging you to take the parent comment in the general spirit of digital “ownership” having taken over the culture and not point out that Winamp technically still exists.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’ve been using bandcamp and normal music playing apps. Always hated Spotify.
passepartout@feddit.org 1 day ago
Therefor we got Finamp now, which is really good and about to get even better.
fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yeah I use foobar and it works fine, but it still sucks and still affects us that the culture is streaming based. It’s better when your habits aren’t niche and you’re not always fighting against the norm.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Plexamp is fantastic. Sweetfades and radio/mix features, which can also include songs from shared libraries, are dope as hell. One of my favorite audio players of all time. Bridges the gap between old school local library playback and modern algorithm stuff really well.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Plex is all aboard the enshittification train too.
Supernova1051@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
it’s only gotten better. now you can run it in your browser and play local files
webamp.org
vane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I only use foobar2000 and soulseek