We noticed this a few months back. There are still other workarounds.

Nice, thanks for the answer. They also got a 60 day premium test period for 2 euro, so I’ll test it out.

It’s available in the EU. Found a promising service the other day but it wasn’t available here.

So… is there an alternative to Spotify for music streaming inside the EU that also has a large DB of metal? Ideally a service that gives a bigger share to the artists.

That’s you and me, somewhat tech savvy users. Your usual user won’t find that.

I work in IT so you might think I might be more into the topic and thus more careful with my data. There are a lot of colleagues of mine that don’t care one bit. Some even jokingly call me paranoid.

Sure, I use GrapheneOS, a de-googled Android OS, made the switch from Gmail to Tuta (formerly tutanota), a privacy ans security focused mail provider and use my own domain for mailing.

Then there are some other measurements in place like AdGuard and Pihole to block ads and trackers. I think that’s the bare minimum, especially if you’re working in IT. It doesn’t cost much, the setup is straight forward and the benefits are huge. I haven’t had any ads in my network for years.

I’m currently switching from windows to Linux as daily driver. There are some issues with getting some games to run, but as soon as they do I’m switching for good.

There are some easy thing one can do, even without any expertise in IT. There are even things you can do that aren’t finicky (like linux troubleshooting). People are just way to comfortable.

Maybe they should watch the documentary about Edward Snowden, Citizenfour. That might change their mind.

The free Internet if you give use your data is already a thing. I saw an ad in germany where you get unlimited free internet access (can’t remember if it was a data plan for phones or cable / fibre service) if you use their “payment partner” for your usual payments like rent, loans and salary. So they basically can see your daily payments and will use and sell this data im exchange for “free” Internet access.

The company and its investors and corporation lead to a weird network of people and a corp in dubai. It’s all quite shady really.

4chan, was this you?