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Spotify quietly moves lyrics behind a paywall.
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this post was submitted on 03 May 2024
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Always people that come along and say this.
To them I say: imagine if you had a calculator app that you only ever used for basic addition. Then the calculator app removed the subtraction, multiplication, and division functions. It may would not seem like a big deal to you, but that doesn't mean the app hasn't gotten less useful.
It's true that they shouldn't be baiting in with an unsustainable free version, but this is essentially paywalling the subtraction function, not removing it