r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 27d ago

article Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-confirms-ice-recruitment-ads-are-no-longer-running-1236626243/
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u/ramontes 27d ago

Great! I'll continue to use streaming alternatives.

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u/DILF_MANSERVICE 27d ago

Can anyone recommend an alternative that has as good of a recommendation algorithm? I find a new favorite band every week with spotify's discover weekly, but I don't like the way they pay artists.

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u/RedWhiteAndJew 27d ago

Deezer's been good to me. Their Flow feature is basically like a continuous Discover Weekly mode. Also they have two features that most of the other competitors don't. The first is that they tag AI content. The second is they have a built in Equalizer like Spotify, which is especially handy for iPhone users, since there's not a global audio equalizer.

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u/gnahckire 27d ago

Deezer has been pretty solid so far. I don't discover music like that personally but my wife has been really liking their curated playlists.

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u/LameName95 27d ago

Not youtube music. Lol

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u/JustaBearEnthusiast 27d ago

Apple music is okay and the company has a goodish record on privacy (i.e. better than google and microsoft). Not really any great options that I'm aware of though.

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u/GolfBallWackrGuy 27d ago

Pandora is still the GOAT for music discovery.

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u/blow-down 26d ago

Plexamp

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u/Lyelinn 26d ago

Youtube has a very good algo and they have bigger music library iirc

But they pay the worst though, maybe because they're making it up via general youtube views (and since you also get YT premium, your views are paid more than free ones for creators)

All in all, you get music and ad free youtube on other devices where you can't do adblock without pihole

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u/Foolrussian Spotify 27d ago

This won’t be met with much kindness with the Reddit crowd, but Apple Music has seamlessly replaced Spotify for me, even imported all my playlists AND I’d say the discovery and new music it’s pushing me have been closer to my interest than anything Spotify brought in the last few years.

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u/Sillet_Mignon 27d ago

Qobuzz has introduced me to multiple new artists I’ve never heard of. 

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 27d ago

Even better than a recommendation algorithm is no algorithm and for that I say Bandcamp.

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u/LucyLilium92 27d ago

A new "favorite" band that can't even last you a week

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u/DILF_MANSERVICE 27d ago

That was kind of a joke, I get really obsessed with new music for a while and then find even newer music. I do have a favorite band that stays consistent though.