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So, your suggested alternative to avoid data monopolization is to use a FAANG (with a worse product)? I accept that those are alternatives, but no thanks.

Pandora has been geo-blocked and IIRC only serves the USA since 2007, and SoundCloud appears to me to be offering a different service.

Can't really suggest YT as an alternative to a monopoly

Is either company a monopoly in "music streaming" if they're both viable alternatives?

People way overuse "monopoly" these days.

In the country I live in none of those are available other than Apple Music. So the choices are Spotify and Apple Music.

Apple is much less likely to sell off your data

That is true but their app on Android was terrible (I used it for two years before Spotify was available here). Probably the worst Android app I used on a regular basis.

Likely it is better on Apple devices but I don't use those.