What is the current status of Spotify?

[mjzee]

9 minutes ago, GA Russell said:

Now that Grooveshark is gone, what is the next best thing to Spotify that is free?  Google Play?

If you're worried about Spotify collecting your data, you should be terrified by Google.

[Scott Dolan]

48 minutes ago, GA Russell said:

My hard drive shut down a couple of months ago, so I have switched to something small for the time being. 

Yesterday I went to Spotify to check what they had available, but they insisted that I first download their player.  And they insisted that before I do that, I first agree to their collection of my data.  No thanks.

Now that Grooveshark is gone, what is the next best thing to Spotify that is free?  Google Play?

 

 

What data are they collecting? 

[GA Russell]

Scott, I didn't click to see.  They just pointed out that I was agreeing to their collecting data.

Edited January 6, 2016 by GA Russell

[Scott Dolan]

I didn't either, but here's what I found.

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/spotify-and-privacy.html

Not terribly frightening, nor Orwellian even a little bit, IMO. Works pretty much the same exact way search engines like Google do. Certainly no reason for it to be a deal breaker.