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Really, really hate the "podcast invasion". If I could click a button to make all podcasts disappear from Spotify forever, I would.

I still listen on Spotify a lot---I have extensive playlists built up there over a decade. I keep thinking I should find a way out, though.

Indie Shuffle and Funk Whale have been good discovery tools for me lately.

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Yep.. This is a classic example of how many subscription services have embraced user-hostile design, and focus on trying to force the behaviour they want, rather than adapt to the behaviour a paying customer wants.

I will never use Spotify for podcasts. Nothing against them having podcasts, but I have other ways to consume them. I would love to turn all that shit off in the UI, the same way I can turn off Radio and other things in iTunes.

But no, Spotify will forever push that shit on me - a paying customer - because they hope I will eventually relent under pressure and start using it, or something.

And that disrespect for their customers really sucks.

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