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Comment by rectang | Hacker News Reader

I'm a paid subscriber. I'm paying for the product, and therefore I shouldn't have to be the product.

The Wired article suggests that Spotify are only offering a binary choice: allow the little Spotify creep to squat on my phone taking notes on me, or stop using the service altogether. Are those really my only options?

I'm an email-only user (no Facebook for me).

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I just uninstalled it and am going to cancel my account in a few minutes. I pay money for it too so that I don't have to sell my personal info and that of my friends.

I just did the same and so did a couple of my friends. Sometimes a zero tolerance, knee-jerk reaction is the best reaction to this sort of thing.

I just want to stream music that I want to listen to. That's it. I don't want any social features, I don't want my play list being generated automatically by my heart rate, etc.

I'm currently in the process of downloading the music I saved in my Spotify playlist (through a laptop). The mobile app is already uninstalled. Now all I need to do is to download those songs and delete my account.

On my Android, ToS still date as of July 8, 2014 so I guess this is still being discussed. I'll wait to see how it pans out but I'll seriously consider cancelling my subscription on principle if this goes through.

Apparently. I guess we'll learn soon enough whether a large enough percentage of their customers care or are educated enough to care. Sadly, the answer nothing will probably come of this.

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