I noticed from my other fediverse instance that a friend there cancelled his Spotify subscription since its CEO has been investing in AI weapons tech. .
So I did too, or rather, cancelled my half of the duo subscription we had. For now, I’ve moved my music back over to SoundCloud. I can’t legally pay for a subscription here, and also don’t need to hear ads as paid subscriptions are not available. Till a couple of years ago, I did have a subscription, and tried to make one again – but now they’ve introduced a post code box in the subscription form.
SoundCloud has enough of the music I like to work well for me (none of this is mainstream in any case). It just means that when I point my VPN to a country where SoundCloud is available, there are ads. (This also means that if anyone would like to listen to SoundCloud for free without ads, you just need to point your VPN to a country where their subscription service isn’t available.)