I am super conflicted about this, that despite the fact I saw this article when it was released, I did not share it.
The reason being, (Helsing) The company he is investing in is suppling drones to Ukraine.
Further more, while I highly recommend buycotting Spotify in general, due to their anti-consumer practices and their shitty treatment for the artists and their use of DRM, I can’t really stand behind and defend boycotting every defense tech investor.
Basically, I can call for boycotting investors who invest in defense tech companies that supply tech to the evil sides. I can’t really do the same for all the defense tech companies in the world.
Stream your own for only a few bucks a year (price for a domain name)
price for a domain name
Or host your own VPN on home network. Or use Tailscale VPN, that also works behind CG-NAT, and can usually get direct connection.
TIDAL pays much more to the artists anyway.
Spotify has been garbage for so long. I left when the Joe Rogan stuff got so bad and artists were demanding to have their music removed from Spotify in response.
You can buy music and maintain your own personal collection. It was not as hard as I thought it would be and the quality is so much higher. Artists get more of the money as well from you.
I’ve noticed people haven’t been talking about it anywhere near as much in the last few years. I used them briefly, but at the time you couldn’t do things like download an album without making a playlist with that album in it.
It was very weird.
Where do you buy music?
7 Digital and Bandcamp
People still buy music?
I even buy vinyls
And if want to stream your music on the go, setting up something like jellyfin or plex works really well
Or Navidrome if you only want to stream music. It also supports dynamic playlists, internet radio, and scrobbling.
Like if keeping Joe Rogan and making donations to Trump wasn’t enough
