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'Spotify Teardown combines interviews, participant observations, and other analyses of Spotify's “front end” with experimental, covert investigations of its “back end.”'

It would be helpful to see a list of its contents/preview. I can't quite tell what this is about - it seems like it promises some technical detail which doesn't square with the authors' backgrounds?

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Yeah, I'm not a fan of this post. It's a link to a product with promises of discussion of technical details without any actual discussion of said details. HN has thousands and thousands of amazing free sites to link to, why do we need this marketing tease? Just because it has the words MIT and Spotify and Front/Backend on it? I wish I could downvote this post.

I think that they are referring to the music publisher interaction when they refer to the "back end" rather than the code itself.

It does look like there might be some technical detail, but I’m not sure how much there will be:

> The authors engaged in a series of interventions, which include establishing a record label for research purposes, intercepting network traffic with packet sniffers, and web-scraping corporate materials.

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