I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a “sponsored recommendation”.

Why am I seeing ads if I’m already paying for the premium plan!? 😑

  • pirate fishEnglish
    321·
    1 year ago

    Advertisements are now pretending to be recommendations

    • Pyro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      Haven’t ads always been recommendations in some roundabout way? Regular ads are technically just a company recommending their own product/service to you (whether you need it or not).

    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      I mean, real life recommendations are more often than not that too. I mean, ones you get asking friends.

      • Pontishmonti@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I would bet that on Spotify most people discover music by listening to personalized generated playlists and not by waiting for ads to guide them. Have you ever used Spotify?