Programmatic advertising should be forbidden on state level. It is a vector in malvertising and misinformation (and thus is a danger to democracies) and makes the user-experience worse in everything it touches.
malvertising and misinformation
You pretty much described most ads. What is the difference?
That your “most ads” are programmatic advertising.
We gave up Winamp for this.
I only use foobar2000 and soulseek
Before you comment I’m begging you to take the parent comment in the general spirit of digital “ownership” having taken over the culture and not point out that Winamp technically still exists.
Plexamp is fantastic. Sweetfades and radio/mix features, which can also include songs from shared libraries, are dope as hell. One of my favorite audio players of all time. Bridges the gap between old school local library playback and modern algorithm stuff really well.
Plex is all aboard the enshittification train too.
Plexamp is awesome. Got a couple of playlists and coupled with the dj options to add other songs in between I can just let my playlists play, or do the same with genres or decades. Works wonders for me.
I’ve been using bandcamp and normal music playing apps. Always hated Spotify.
it’s only gotten better. now you can run it in your browser and play local files
I went back to curating my own library
Fuck these parasites… Deny them profit and engagement
You guys get ads on Spotify? HahahaYarrrr
I’ve been a Spotify subscriber since 2012 and every year it has gotten worse and worse in term of UX.
I think this is the year I quit and go back to buying and ripping CDs.
Tidal is pretty good except for the lack of podcasts. AntennaPod replaced that feature for me and made the switch easy.
Lack of podcasts is a plus for me. Thanks for the suggestion.
So glad I canceled my sub holy fuck.
And no “AI” was involved…
