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Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue in there somewhere like data retention. (lemmy.world)
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Spotify wrapped started this trend seems other apps are following through. Seeing a summary of things you did with there app. Kind of gives you a hint how much other things are being tracked.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

But for Spotify they are tracking how many times you played different songs. Not trying to defend them, but for a music service I’m pretty sure they need to track that kind of information regardless. Might as well tally it up and show your own data to you

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They only need aggregate data for that, they don't need them to be assigned to a specific user account.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Music players have been keeping play counts since before the invention of the iPod. It's a datapoint that users have come to expect. I actually wish services like Spotify or Apple Music did a better job of displaying this data throughout the year rather than just in end of year infographics.

Like I dunno, Google is literally collating your location data, I hardly think music plays is top secret info.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I actually wish services like Spotify or Apple Music did a better job of displaying this data throughout the year rather than just in end of year infographics.

Preach

Spotify > Search > Made For You > “On Repeat” / “Repeat Rewind” = not sufficient

Chad Google Play Music > sort by plays = perfect

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought Google Play Music didn't exist anymore?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Sure doesn’t yeah, guess I was just reliving a good feature memory 😉

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

the difference is that mp3 players didn't upload all that information to an American datacenter. Also tracking times of day, building profiles on listeners, etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

They need that assigned to specific use accounts so that people can look at their play history. A thing that people often want to do with their music players.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

If they did that it would be far too easy for people to boost listens and ratings with bots