Spotify wrapped started this trend seems other apps are following through. Seeing a summary of things you did with there app. Kind of gives you a hint how much other things are being tracked.

  • Electric
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    196 months ago

    Isn’t that just basic data they already kept track of?

    • @wabafee@lemmy.worldOP
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      Not really sure what you mean basic but if tracking someone’s clicks on certain button, or features and can be traced back to you. It’s actually kind off putting so much for making your information anonymise which most companies claim.

      • @FiniteLooper@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        But for Spotify they are tracking how many times you played different songs. Not trying to defend them, but for a music service I’m pretty sure they need to track that kind of information regardless. Might as well tally it up and show your own data to you

        • Rikudou_Sage
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          They only need aggregate data for that, they don’t need them to be assigned to a specific user account.

          • Norah (pup/it/she)
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            96 months ago

            Music players have been keeping play counts since before the invention of the iPod. It’s a datapoint that users have come to expect. I actually wish services like Spotify or Apple Music did a better job of displaying this data throughout the year rather than just in end of year infographics.

            Like I dunno, Google is literally collating your location data, I hardly think music plays is top secret info.

          • shastaxc
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            If they did that it would be far too easy for people to boost listens and ratings with bots