Spotify Wrapped: Data Collection Wrapped in Consumption Perversion
How Spotify Wrapped transforms consumption into identity, why the music streaming model is broken, and my attempt to refuse it all.
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Having access to nearly every piece of published music at any given time is a serious consumer luxury. It is fairly well known however that the largest of these platforms that provide such luxury are doing so without paying artists fairly. The worst offender, and platform of the largest user base, of course being Spotify. This is largely why we have seen public call outs for boycotting/switching off Spotify for more "ethical" alternatives such as Tidal.
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