I think this might be due to Australian consumer protection laws dictating that faulty products MUST be returnable. I see the "292 albums" you're talking about! And yep, umpteen copies of the same album art just like in your screenshot. My screenshot shows "15 results" at the top, which a reload of the page just now is still showing.īut when I go to load the site through my VPS in Germany. and some copy-cats clips I recommend opening in a private tab unless you want to be inundated with even more clones: I would love to know if anyone on Hacker News knows something about this kind of thing. You've got to wonder if there's someone with deep pockets trying to influence public opinion on China? Or is it just the same thing as the "local" news channels, where a bunch of YouTubers have been "bought" by a corporation that send them material to read? Reminds me of the "This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy" clip that edited together dozens of apparently independent local news channels saying the same script, verbatim. Different presenters, different channels, same message. I put the word independent in air quotes because they all have near-identical looking title cards with the similar fonts, some variant of the phrasing "The collapse has begun!", and the same-ish content. Something I noticed after I watched an episode of Stoic Finance about a possible "impending crash of the Chinese economy" is that YouTube started recommending about a dozen "independent" channels. They're a mix of just enough of your taste so that you trust and buy-in, mixed with whatever flavor of the week the recommendation engine would love to sell you. They're not recommendations based on your taste. I hit the option to not request it to me again, and yet there it is. I have no interest in listening to podcasts on Spotify. They didn't pay Joe Rogan millions for no reason.Īs a man under thirty, I see the JRE logo on the front page of my Spotify at least five or six times a month. Podcasts are so heavily pushed by Spotify because they're trying to make themselves the centralized one stop shop for your audio consumption. With YouTube, it's MrBeast style videos, influencer bait, and shorts. They're either pushing the content that makes people engage with the platform the longest, or that promote another feature that the platform is trying to push on you. ), so why can't I just use that when searching for new music, directly in the normal app?Īll these recommendation engine problems people aren't discussing here aren't bugs or problems, they're features. Why can't I just browse instead? Spotify has a very extensive way of categorizing songs based on multiple characteristics (. And imho 'just use a no history session' or 'click not interested' do not solve the problem, especially since the argument in favor of recommendations seems to be that it is 'more convenient for the user'. Just because I watched or listened to something does not mean I want more of it. Highly subjective, but i'm tired of personalized suggestions & feeds. I've tried to use the browsing categories but these are most of the time just as poor, they only contain a few playlists and the latest big releases of the genre. I have zero interest in podcasts, have never clicked on any and likely never will, yet it's always the first thing on the app homepage, just below 'recently played'. * still, the worst offender has to be podcasts. * the 'recommended for today' section is regularly filled with random synthwave when it's a genre i barely ever listen to, and a lot of 'electronica/trance/organica/deep house/whatever you want to call it', which i don't really listen to either (at least this kind of electro music). * Ratatat and Röyksopp both are in my top 5 of all time according to Spotify's own stats, yet I never got any suggestion about E.VAX, Kunzite, or Röyksopp's releases (their Lost Tapes playlist and their latest album, released about 4 months ago). And the songs that i've already liked are from a few specific genres and artists, which seem completely random. I turned off youtube recommendations years ago so I can't comment on that, but spotify's have pretty much always been terrible in my experience.Īnything suggested on the front page is either songs i already have in my liked songs or completely out of place.
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