All posts tagged: subscriptions

Posted on Nov 24, 2025 at 11:52 by scott truitt

YouTube is full of ads.  Subscribe to YouTube Premium.  Spotify is full of ads.  Subscribe to Spotify Premium.  Both still track you and sell your data.  But you can’t stop that.  Everything has an ad  in front of it,  over top of it,  sandwiched in the middle of it.  Unskippable ads.  Unescapable bullsh!t. Accept our privacy policy so we can share data with our 837 business partners.  Accept our cookie policy so we can follow you everywhere and manipulate everything you see.  Everything h

Posted on Apr 5, 2025 at 23:00 by scott truitt

Ad-supported and subscription-based monetisation business models punish the music industry, especially indie artists and labels, for its success. How? Both limit how much money artists, labels, and rights holders can earn on their music. Why? It’s more profitable for Spotify and the like to collect money from everyone and reduce artists, labels, and rights holders to fighting for leftover scraps in a royalty pool model. They also hurt users, but we’ll cover that one next. Let’s dig in. Ad-