[kpierce]

Are you mad about the content or the way it was shown (interfering)? I get these things every couple weeks it's usually pretty targeted/relevant. If it's not incredibly relevant to me it's usually culturally pretty important.

Personally I think spotify is the best content provider to give me good recommendations. Compared to netflix, youtube and other media source they dont show the same 10 items mixed into other topics.

The unfortunate thing about the insane amount of tests that spotify runs to make their platform more engaging is some people will have bad experiences.

[nerdawson]

I don't mind recommendations but the popup crosses a line. It's a first-party ad; no doubt Spotify get paid to promote certain music. If you're paying for an ad free experience, I can understand why it'd be frustrating.

[fwn]

I think a good rule of thumb is that if a recommendation format can not be deactivated it's probably an ad.

[ushakov]

these don't seem like genuine recommendations, they are promotional (ads)

and each of them is totally unrelevant:

1. I don't care about German rap, full miss

2. I don't have anybody to share a Spotify Duo subscription with (that's depressing, I know)

3. I've heard of Chainsmokers, but I don't care how your music taste matches with these guys

above all of that, I'm paying for my premium subscription for 6 years now

[jabroni_salad]

Even if the popup is extremely relevant to me it will have two problems:

1. if I am opening the app I probably have a destination in mind, and a surprise popup isnt what I was thinking about.

2. After I decline the popup whatever content it was trying to hawk at me, no matter how appealing, is now lost to the aether. Who got value from that? Not me, not spotify, not the content owner.

Discover Weekly and Release Radar are really good, so good that I cant seem to stay with any competitor for very long. I'm not sure why popups are seen as a good idea by anyone. Why cant it just put he promo content in those? They know I use them.

It's kinda like how any software eventually tries to emulate email. Every marketing department eventually turns into a spammer, no matter how well intentioned they were in the beginning.