[iknownothing52]

Payments to artists are based on total listens, not who is paying or who you listen to. So your money goes to the artists listened to by others :(

They are also shockingly bad with snooping on you and sharing data.

Ads that come from third parties are open to exploitation and not properly vetted, not to mention may be jarring to your experience.

I was a paying customer for a long time but i dont like basically anything about how they work. I quit after the privacy policy got repeatedly worse and given that i was paying more than it cost to just buy all the music i listened to (when taken over years assuming youtube is as good when you are just showing someone a song not listening for quality). And they were still insisting on spying on me and keeping the data, wanting to know as much as possible about what i was doing! Even though i was paying for the service :(

And to top it all the money was going to effectively top playing radio artists :( direct purchase of flacs from the artist FTW. If you are going to pay for a service make it dropbox or something else more agnostic / flexible.