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'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2025
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Not sure that corporate ownership has the meaning you imply here. Let's say I launch a streaming service in Europe and it attracts consumers. This brings investors that help scale up my company. Among these investors, one ends up being a scumbag 10 years later. Should people boycott my company for that reason? With this reasoning, I don't see any service that shouldn't be boycotted. Target, Meta, Amazon, Delta, Pfizer, Visa all donated money for Trump's inauguration, among dozens other big US companies. Plus, Deezer is now public. Finally, as a European compamy, it has to respect consumers privacy.
Keep in mins that in the same way (now trades in USA stock markets, but was based in Sweden and now Luxembourg) Spotify is European, too.
I don't think any of the companies you've mentioned are ethical investments.
Sure, si why target Deezer which is by several metrics way more ethical? Is Spotify better?