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> For the privacy-minded, Apple Music doesn't notify Facebook each time you open the app.

Isn't there a way to disconnect Facebook from one's Spotify account altogether?

I don't even have a Facebook account. That doesn't stop Facebook's SDK from phoning home every time Spotify is opened.

Is this on the web or on the backend - use an adblocker if not?

That's only if you login with Facebook to Spotify... Which isn't required.

No, you are mistaken. I have no Facebook account.

Spotify phones home to Facebook the moment the app is opened. This can be confirmed with a no-root firewall like Netguard on Android.

This is why Little Snitch is fantastic.

Especially on the phone where most people use Spotify. Oh wait...

I almost never use Spotify on my phone. The one exception is when I needed to handle the music for my wedding (piped it through some massive bluetooth speakers).

I think you must recognise that you're an outlier.

Tell Apple, not me. I’d have written it myself already if such a thing were possible. Special VPNs can do this, or you can just carry a travel router, 4g modem, and usb battery pack velcroed to your ankle, and connect to it via WiFi, so that you can blackhole things via DNS or iptables.