Interesting, but won’t help me personally. The account was erased.
All other services were like: ok, we cannot process your payment due to the war. This one yielded a bizarre message about how I am complicit with Russian army’s atrocities in Ukraine and therefore they delete my account till the end of March 2022
Like okay, Spotify you made your political statement, but does it somehow affect the actual political situation? I admire some Russian piracy sites that replaced advertisements with cinematics from Bucha and links to volunteers that helped Ukrainians to move to Europe through Russia
Russian market is minor compared to western market, given the fact that russian market of Music streaming is dominated by Yandex Music.
There were not that many ways of legalizing income from Russian territory because of visa/mc ban and swift ban.
Political climate in Russia was and is quite harsh: bizarre regulations and employees as hostages just to name a few.
Twitter politics (shaming companies that do not exit russian market) was a minor factor I believe. Some western corps are there including the one where I used to work (USA). Also YouTube/google still bans content that authorities find inappropriate (e.g. how to escape draft)
To rephrase: I would not spend 30 minutes listening to ads in order to save 30 minutes of spare time. Probably even less because ads are very disruptive to me, wasting more precious time.
Spotify erased my precisely curated list because I’m Russian and this somehow helps to stop the war in Ukraine
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That’s how I’d behave if I wanted to start this journey again
I haven’t tested it myself but this seems interesting https://spotube.krtirtho.dev/
It grabs your playlists from Spotify and downloads the corresponding songs from YouTube
Interesting, but won’t help me personally. The account was erased.
All other services were like: ok, we cannot process your payment due to the war. This one yielded a bizarre message about how I am complicit with Russian army’s atrocities in Ukraine and therefore they delete my account till the end of March 2022
Like okay, Spotify you made your political statement, but does it somehow affect the actual political situation? I admire some Russian piracy sites that replaced advertisements with cinematics from Bucha and links to volunteers that helped Ukrainians to move to Europe through Russia
Money talks; if they imply any support for unpopular opinion people would drop support, thus making them lose money
I don’t understand your point tbh.
They did choose to exit russian market because
Russian market is minor compared to western market, given the fact that russian market of Music streaming is dominated by Yandex Music.
There were not that many ways of legalizing income from Russian territory because of visa/mc ban and swift ban.
Political climate in Russia was and is quite harsh: bizarre regulations and employees as hostages just to name a few.
Twitter politics (shaming companies that do not exit russian market) was a minor factor I believe. Some western corps are there including the one where I used to work (USA). Also YouTube/google still bans content that authorities find inappropriate (e.g. how to escape draft)
Saving 30 minutes a month (or even week), Spotify starts to sound like a good deal. I’m in!
Wouldn’t that work for free Spotify too? If that’s your thing, it’s probably worth sitting through the occasional ad rather than paying for it.
But that is eating from my time. Given time=money in the above statement, this would eventually bring the value down to zero again.
To rephrase: I would not spend 30 minutes listening to ads in order to save 30 minutes of spare time. Probably even less because ads are very disruptive to me, wasting more precious time.
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