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why don't you guys scrobble? (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by juli@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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From a privacy standpoint, i guess. I want to support open scrobbling with listenbrainz and the account isn't directly linked to a real acc. Why shouldn't I/ why don't you?

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] drkt@feddit.dk 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because music charts are valuable because the music industry is valuable? They give me free access to their API and they get to scrape the data. It's not incriminating data, it's not GPS data. It is, at best, an unreliable indicator of when I am awake.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 0 points 10 months ago

Those are pretty terrible examples.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

They sell (sold?) the recommendation API. When you scrobble, last.fm got to build a corpus of data they could make recommendations from.