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Spotify Messages can reveal your profile to anyone you've ever shared music with (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 2 days ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/privacy@programming.dev

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A Reddit user Reeceeboii_ highlights, any time you share a song from within Spotify, it generates a unique tracking URL linked to your account. Spotify can join the dots between the sender and receiver whenever anyone clicks on this unique URL. People have allegedly noticed that Spotify has retroactively filled out the history of song shares in the Messages feature, which is possible through these tracking URLs.

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[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Surprisingly many people wanted it, as Spotify first launched with such a feature before being removed many years ago. They want to share music even faster with no system app selection popups.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

For example, the share sheet on Android is still terrible. Something that could be fixed by adding a way to customize it quickly (whitelist a few apps and manually pin+sort a few contacts/apps)