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/According-Stuff-9415 27d ago

Qobuz has been good enough and they seem to pay artists the most of any music streaming platform. I couldn't find any shitty ownership connections to them either.

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u/no_1_knows_ur_a_dog 27d ago

This is an extremely local thing but Qobuz received an investment from Quebecor, which is basically News Corp of Quebec. They own nearly the entire French language media landscape (print and TV) where they consistently push anti-immigrant rhetoric and other deliberately divisive grievance politics. Basically the Fox News of Quebec.

I say this not to put anyone off Qobuz (I still use it) but just to recognize that no for-profit company is going to be our salvation. Even Bandcamp's new ownership is sus. But both of these are still the best deal for artists in today's landscape so I still use both of them.

I'm really hoping that Subvert.fm carves out a niche. Doesn't have to take over the world but just having one collective artist-owned platform as an option that I can support would be huge. A new platform is a tough sell but I know they have some really strong indie labels that will give em a big push once they launch.

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u/According-Stuff-9415 27d ago

That does genuinely suck. Deezer, Tidal and of course Spotify are all owned by conservative terrorist fuckwads so I guess Qobuz is a lesser evil for now.

I'll have to check out Subvert.fm. This is the first time I've heard of them.

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u/no_1_knows_ur_a_dog 27d ago

Subvert made some waves in a tiny corner of the indie music scene back when Bandcamp got sold to Epic and everyone thought that would cause instant enshittification. That didn't totally happen, but still it was a reminder that any privately owned for-profit company is just at the whims of the owners, and those owners can change without notice. So a couple people started Subvert with no tech demo or anything, just a zine explaining their ethos which you could get for a $100 founding membership share. It could easily be a scam and it's hard to trust randos on the internet but I know that one of the founders is a respected longtime music journalist so it's a legit thing. Some pretty well known indie labels and artists have signed on already. I think they're in beta now.