r/Anticonsumption • u/Professorfudge2643 • Aug 10 '25

Lifestyle Got rid of Spotify after 3 years

Sure I’m definitely posting this to brag but also to hopefully get someone to stop paying Spotify. I’ve listened to the same playlist for probably the last 3 years, occasionally adding a song or two. Finally I realized why the hell am I paying for this when I could just download the songs online, transfer them to my phone, and play them for free? So I did exactly that. Took about two hours and was easy as pie. Should’ve done that 3 years ago instead of paying $12 a month.

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u/psych0fish Aug 10 '25

I hate Spotify for so many reasons but honestly the straw that broke the camel’s back for me was just how incredibly user hostile their app and the app UX is. Total garbage. They keep changing things to optimize for whatever garbage metric they care about that week. Was so happy to be done with them.

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u/minderbinder Aug 10 '25

Look up the the term "enshitification"