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knowingly not removing the trackers from links you send to people is like being a trained chef and deliberately giving your loved ones food poisoning.
Isn’t that the case for basically all those websites that add trackers. Which is most of them.
I don't understand why Spotify even needs a messaging feature. This seems like one of the most useless additions, as people who share music from the Spotify app are usually sharing it with a friend via an existing messaging service.
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.
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)
Generally I think there are two questions: why does Spotify want messages and why would a user want them. The first one seems easy enough to answer: anything that binds a customer more closely to their product and creates switching costs in an otherwise relatively interchangeable product is good from a business perspective.
I could imagine some other use cases as well: Maybe it could be used to allow artists to engage their fans, inserting the platform deeper inbetween those two. I don't really know how merch and ticket sales are currently handled exactly, but a messaging system might also be useful to fully keep users within the app while using those features.
Yet another reason why privacy focussed tools should be automatically stripping those out. I use an app on mobile and do it manually on desktop, but it's still tedious at times
Which app do you use for that?
uBlock Origin does that with the proper filter lists activated.
https://github.com/celenityy/ublock-origin-settings?tab=readme-ov-file#privacy-1
Add the Legitimate URL Shortener.
Edit: Of course only in the browser, not other apps.
This one
https://github.com/TrianguloY/URLCheck
You set it as the browser and it intercepts any links you click on so you can edit them. You can set some default actions, as well as share links to the app
Why the fuck does Spotify need a messages feature in the first place? Who was asking for this?
Surprisingly many people, as Spotify first launched with such a feature before being removed many years ago.