They also randomly delete albums and state increased playcount by AI as the reason for removal, and they also allow random dudes publishing remixes on your own artist profile, because there are no checks in place. You can just fill out the artist name in a text field and publish a song:

(She also made this meme release up top to prove how broken the system is.)

So fuck Spotify in every way you can. They don't deserve the money, since they're clearly doing nothing for the artists with it.

Yeah, they write smaller checks than Spotify. Spotify has more subscribers. But Apple pays more per stream.

Spotify sponsors Joe Rogan, and Apple's CEO sucks up to Trump. There are no winners here with regards to politics.

Some say you can't separate music from politicians, and I suppose that's fair. I still pay for music, and if my same ten bucks a month or whatever it is now is gonna go in some small part to some bad fuckers, if more goes to the artists with one than the other, I can consider that the lesser of two evils.

Though you're not gonna hurt Apple and their Trump boot licking by not paying for their music streaming. Nah, you do that by only buying the phone you need, when you need it, not a new one every year like some people like to do. You can only hurt Spotify by not buying Spotify Premium. I like my iPhone okay, but it wasn't as big of an upgrade as the last one, and my next smartphone probably won't be an iPhone at all. Though I won't need to make that decision for another five or six years.

Okay, so aside from the fact that you're stalking me across communities for whatever reason — if I write a loophole in your employer's code, like a patch, that keeps them from having to pay you, and they like not having to pay you, I haven't done anything egregious or unethical? Or it's only egregious or unethical because it's happening to a company you don't like?

If the law doesn't apply without prejudice blindly and equally for all, what good is it? And who decides who is deserving? Some pathetic Internet stalker? So given your lack of ethics, would you then agree it would be fair to take your wages as well? Or do you draw the line between companies and people, or how much someone makes? Because we might find some common ground there. But on the surface, it appears you are the one throwing dog shit from that which is covering you.

That's a good point. But the issue is, it's always going to be a moving target. Every year I could reassess the streaming services and quit the one I'm on and go with the one that best meets my needs each year. And each year it could be a different one. Ethically, that would be the superior option. But, I'm not perfect, I'm barely ideal, and I use a family plan to help justify my cost. Sure, I pay more, but I also get my wife and a couple other family members the gift of perpetual music as well.

So if every year, or every, however often, I were to reassess, and drop one service, and start another one and ask them to dump the app and get a new app and let me add them on that, all of us are losing our entire library every time we switch across. It's a lot of work. Sure, there are tools to convert your stuff over, but it's still a bit of work.

At this point it's not about who's the actual absolute best at the things that matter the most, at this point it's just which one's good enough for our needs. Also Apple is one of the few streaming services that doesn't give a hoot if your family all lives with you. We had Spotify before and at that point — this was years ago — you had to retype the address every month, and if, say, my niece mistyped it, she'd lose access to her premium benefits for a month. At one point I just sent her an email with the exact text to copy and it was fine, but like if she accidentally left a space at the end or something, if the text didn't match 100%, it was this whole thing — and of course I wasn't compensated for a family member being denied their benefit for the month. Apple does not care. You add the person and they get the benefit without ever having to physically be at that address. I just hope that doesn't change.

(Also, I think Napster pays artists the most now, ironically?)

By patching Spotify’s app on the user device instead of providing downloads to pre-patched apps

Android's sideloading changes were done to end this, you cannot change my mind.