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. . . Just Why???

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. . . Just Why???

Now, my ad preferences are basically non-existent, and my musical choices are of a scathingly nonpolitical nature, but I have never really received any ads of political nature, until, since yesterday . . .

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Why, Spotify, of all people? Why did you decide to rebuke your policy on politically-charged ads? They are loud, disturbing, and divisive, ruining the soundtracks to bathtimes and grill parties everywhere.

 

Now, I get it, I get it, it's the "mid-Midterm", and we HAVE to have this kind of stuff shoved up our ears as part of our holy obligation of being politically informed, but why?

 

At first it looked to be a rare, one-time occurrence, but these two seem to be the only ads I am getting now, over and over again. Even clicking thumbs down on these ads ("I think this content was offensive.") and thumbs up on everything else seems to not even help at all. It's inevitable. And the fact that this started happening mere days after the botched Trump assassination attempt is the icing on top of the cake. And you would think that Spotify's algorithm-that-be would have the gall to include ads from other politicians as well.

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It's I don't have the free version of Spotify, so I'm not familiar with how the advertisements work. The word, "botched" ((of a task) carried out badly or carelessly) is definitely not the right word for what happened on July 13th, though. The pushing of only those advertisements and the failed assassination attempt are related. They don't want him to succeed. I wonder if anyone hears political advertisements from Trump instead of just Biden. Do you mean that you don't have the ability to change your advertisement preferences, or that you just haven't, and this is what you got, in spite of it? Either way, it definitely seems like some bias is going on. I'm glad that I don't have to hear that nonsense. Something definitely needs to be done about that.

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