Streaming music for a monthly subscription is an increasingly popular form of listening to music among users. Companies that offer this service are also trying to create the most advantageous offers for their customers, with which they try to keep them with their service or attract them from the competition. One of the very popular offers is the so-called family subscription, which allows several family members to use the streaming service for a certain fee. Thanks to this, they can save a lot of money, since the family fee is significantly lower than if each family member paid for the service separately. Users are aware of this and so use the family subscription even if they are not a family but, for example, just a group of friends who use the service and want to save money. However, this “abuse” could be stopped in the future, at least for Spotifyonec.
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In the US, Spotify has started sending emails to some users of its family premium subscription, asking them to confirm their addresses via GPS, which Spotify verifies that they are indeed family members. If users don't, they can say goodbye to their subscription. Of course, this caused a strong wave of resentment among the listeners, for two reasons.
What is a family?
The first reason is privacy concerns. Many people simply don't want to share addresses and other personal information unless absolutely necessary, which is definitely not the case with a streaming service. And leaving aside the privacy issue, many users also point out that it's stupid to "box" families based on whether they live in the same household. MiniHowever, Spotify could easily brush aside the second reason because in its terms of use for families it states that the service is intended for "members of the same household", even though the service is aimed at families, not households directly.
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It can be expected that Spotify will decide on a similar control in other countries where its services are widely used. For now, however, it looks like these will be random checks that will affect only a small percentage of users. It is already clear that if Spotify were to step on all users who abuse the family subscription in some way, it would serve its customers to a competitor Apple Music, which does not mention any joint household in its family conditions.
I don't know, but every time you send a link to one of your friends, you have to enter your home address. If he enters it wrong, he blocks it and I can't add him to my list
They will turn out like in the fairy tale about the goldfish, who wants more and more and more, whatonec THERE IS NOTHING, instead of a Spotify account they can share the mp3 collection on their HDD on the network :D
So let them fart in the bag. There is enough competition. You pay them and they will continue to buzz. Most reasonable people won't pay them anyway after the cancellation and will go to the competition.
Fart in the bag yourself. Are you breaking the terms and still feel offended? So go and don't come back.
Dominito Cherry??
if this happens i will go back to apple music, which family sharing will be about the same as spotify.
Family are friends, friends are family….done, fertig and I'm hooked because I sent GPS coordinates to all my friendly family to forward to Spotify :D
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Matyáš Černý 😄
apple it has much better treatment. In order to have a family subscription, you must have a family shared icloud