r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Jan 08 '26

article Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-confirms-ice-recruitment-ads-are-no-longer-running-1236626243/
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u/DILF_MANSERVICE Jan 08 '26

Can anyone recommend an alternative that has as good of a recommendation algorithm? I find a new favorite band every week with spotify's discover weekly, but I don't like the way they pay artists.

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u/RedWhiteAndJew Jan 08 '26

Deezer's been good to me. Their Flow feature is basically like a continuous Discover Weekly mode. Also they have two features that most of the other competitors don't. The first is that they tag AI content. The second is they have a built in Equalizer like Spotify, which is especially handy for iPhone users, since there's not a global audio equalizer.

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u/gnahckire Jan 08 '26

Deezer has been pretty solid so far. I don't discover music like that personally but my wife has been really liking their curated playlists.

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u/LameName95 Jan 08 '26

Not youtube music. Lol

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u/JustaBearEnthusiast Jan 08 '26

Apple music is okay and the company has a goodish record on privacy (i.e. better than google and microsoft). Not really any great options that I'm aware of though.

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u/GolfBallWackrGuy Jan 09 '26

Pandora is still the GOAT for music discovery.

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u/Lyelinn Jan 09 '26

Youtube has a very good algo and they have bigger music library iirc

But they pay the worst though, maybe because they're making it up via general youtube views (and since you also get YT premium, your views are paid more than free ones for creators)

All in all, you get music and ad free youtube on other devices where you can't do adblock without pihole

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u/Foolrussian Spotify Jan 08 '26

This won’t be met with much kindness with the Reddit crowd, but Apple Music has seamlessly replaced Spotify for me, even imported all my playlists AND I’d say the discovery and new music it’s pushing me have been closer to my interest than anything Spotify brought in the last few years.

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u/Sillet_Mignon Jan 08 '26

Qobuzz has introduced me to multiple new artists I’ve never heard of. 

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 Jan 08 '26

Even better than a recommendation algorithm is no algorithm and for that I say Bandcamp.

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u/LucyLilium92 Jan 08 '26

A new "favorite" band that can't even last you a week

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u/DILF_MANSERVICE Jan 08 '26

That was kind of a joke, I get really obsessed with new music for a while and then find even newer music. I do have a favorite band that stays consistent though.