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...So I Finally Quit Spotify (oliviarafferty.substack.com)
submitted 11 months ago by ooli to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I switched to Tidal from Spotify because as secure my password is, I would always be intereupted mid-listening by my app putting on a shitty random music (often RAP) and discovered that there was an underground operation of people using pirated accounts to inflate stream numbers to get into the popular playlists. And with Tidal I can use Tidal-DL to download flacs to my Navidrome server which is cool.

[–] nutsack 3 points 11 months ago

this happened to me as well and i have no idea how. fascinating

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If your account is linked to your Google, Apple or Facebook account that might be the culprit (I think you can see this in yout account settings). You need to check that because the consequences could be way worse than just having access to your Spotify account. You can use HaveIBeenPwned to look for leaks matching your e-mail address or password.

Another possibility is that your browser/OS or spotify client was infected by a token stealer which can automatically steal your access tokens as you log-in after changing the password.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The weird thing is that it's linked to my Facebook account, which has MFA...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Then it may be a token stealer.

[–] jelloeater85 1 points 11 months ago

Does it work with JellyFin as well?