Porn on Spotify Is Infiltrating the Platform’s Top Podcast Charts (www.bloomberg.com)
from misk@sopuli.xyz to technology@beehaw.org on 20 Mar 22:18
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These programs don’t contain video but are sexually explicit with show or episode titles often marked by the creator as “NSFW,” or “not safe for work.” The creators sometimes instruct their fans to rate the content poorly on purpose so that Spotify doesn’t detect it. They also sometimes ask listeners not to report the shows if they don’t like what they’re hearing or seeing. When I reached out, Spotify also removed these programs for violating the platform’s terms of use.

Sexually explicit material has persisted on Spotify for years, but the issue resurfaced in December when a Reddit user noticed the service’s algorithm recommending porn. Some users on the videos I spotted this week also commented. Why, they wondered, were they being served this content when searching for music?

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terraborra@lemmy.nz on 20 Mar 22:29 next collapse

I just want to remove podcasts and audiobooks from my homepage.

megopie@beehaw.org on 22 Mar 00:32 collapse

but think of the shareholders! How would they feel if the company stoped growing? They need to cram their attempt at an audio content monopoly down your throat or else they’d only just be a music streaming monopoly.

shirro@aussie.zone on 20 Mar 23:32 next collapse

The tech sector has a massive diversity problem. Lots of young men raised with one hand on their dick watching porn while reading libertarian propaganda. I get why vulture capitalists want naive, manipulable children running their businesses but I wish real adults were in charge.

I have left multiple platforms that don’t offer parental controls, family sharing etc. Fortunately better alternatives exist to all these platforms.

As a older man and father I think these people are pathetic little children and I avoid shitty commercial social media in my house and around my family. Unfortunately they are still having a devastating impact on society.

Powderhorn@beehaw.org on 20 Mar 23:40 next collapse

Friendly reminder that archive.is is antagonistic to VPN users. I can’t read this story via either link.

misk@sopuli.xyz on 20 Mar 23:48 collapse

If you know of a different archival service that’s popular enough to carry this kind of content then I’m open to suggestions. By the time I post this stuff archive.is already has a copy but other ones I check don’t.

Powderhorn@beehaw.org on 20 Mar 23:59 collapse

ghostarchive is my preferred method. Usually only takes 1-2 minutes.

SteevyT@beehaw.org on 21 Mar 02:13 next collapse

Is it just archive.is that’s an issue, or do all the archive.whatevers have the same issue. I tend to use archive.ph.

Powderhorn@beehaw.org on 21 Mar 02:28 next collapse

Archive.ph suffers from the same problem.

sqgl@beehaw.org on 21 Mar 03:36 collapse

They are all synonyms for archive.today

whether it is .ph, .vn, .is, .md

Try any of their URL’s but just change the TLD and you will see that page is always archived on all of them.

misk@sopuli.xyz on 21 Mar 12:18 collapse

It’s still a bit hit or miss at the time I’m posting stuff. If I submit news for archival I’m getting an archive of a paywall very often. It happens with archive.is too but not that frequently.

I’m putting this for everyone’s convenience but I also don’t want to make a job for myself out of this.

Powderhorn@beehaw.org on 21 Mar 15:22 collapse

That’s fair. Posting the original source and letting the rest of us figure out how to get to the story with our own methods is perfectly fine.

i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de on 21 Mar 01:16 next collapse

Back when I still used Spotify it would regularly recommend to me podcasts more offensive than porn.

Midnitte@beehaw.org on 21 Mar 11:48 collapse

They do have the rights to Joe Rogan…

BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee on 22 Mar 09:00 collapse

id say theres much more offensive ones out there than joe rogan. hes very surface level

cabinet_sanchez@midwest.social on 21 Mar 01:59 next collapse

Tidal and Pocketcast

dumblederp@aussie.zone on 21 Mar 02:44 next collapse

Flac and piracy.

cabinet_sanchez@midwest.social on 21 Mar 10:33 collapse

Yeah, I know, that would be even better. I know these platforms screw artists, but having worked in or peripherally to these businesses, I have a hard time with piracy (not that I didn’t Napster in my day)

Edit: physical media?

dumblederp@aussie.zone on 21 Mar 10:55 collapse

Physical media requires the space to store it. I’m not against buying stuff on bandcamp et al, but I’m sticking with digital raid storage.

cabinet_sanchez@midwest.social on 21 Mar 20:17 collapse

Yeah, that’s why the uncertainty. I don’t like all the “stuff” involved with physical media

jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de on 21 Mar 06:13 collapse

Antennapod and not depending on the whims of whatever a CEO feels like today.

unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de on 21 Mar 08:00 next collapse

I actually enjoy listening to podcasts on PipePipe (YouTube client) so ads get autoskipped with SponsorBlock.

greybeard@lemmy.one on 21 Mar 13:46 next collapse

I replaced pocketcast with Antennapod a year or so ago. It took some time to adjust, but I’m quite satisified with it now. I feel like I’m slowly converting over at an F-Droid stack on my phone. About all I have left from the Play store are streaming apps and banking apps. I should look into replacing the banking apps with PWAs.

variouslegumes@reddthat.com on 21 Mar 22:08 next collapse

I hope RSS feeds never die. Antennapod forever.

monarch@lemm.ee on 22 Mar 08:12 collapse

I use the web player since I like listening to podcasts while I play games and antena pod doesn’t have one

jamie_oliver@beehaw.org on 21 Mar 22:19 next collapse

I found one selling benzos the other day, honestly insane that they aren’t moderating this because it wasn’t even slightly obscured…

Like I know you can buh drugs on literally any platform, but a music streaming service? Feels too far.

Wahots@pawb.social on 22 Mar 02:12 collapse

Okay, glad I’m not the only one who noticed strange omegaverse podcasts on Spotify.