Limiting Spotify Sharing

[NewTricks]

Spotify settings contain a social category with 6 choices accessed through a desktop.

• Connect with Facebook to see what your friends are playing
• Publish my new playlists on my profile
• Start a private session to listen anonymously
• Share my listening activity on Spotify
• Show my recently played artists on my public profile
• Show my follower and following lists on my public profile

My public profile artists and tracks are only visible to me. I do not want to share or see what other people are playing.

Yet when I go to public places, inevitably, I see pop ups for joining some person's listening activity and I want to find the setting(s) that disable this. I've been told there is such a thing, but only in desktop settings.

At one point, it seemed to be associated with Google mail and I went into each account to disable. I can't remember what I did but it worked for maybe a month.

Now these sharing pop ups are back. I dismiss them, but rather cut them off at the source?

Anyone know how?

   🎹   Thanks 🎼

 

[AdvancedSetup]

I don't use Spotify myself.

Perhaps their support page or their forums?

https://support.spotify.com/us/

 

[NewTricks]

@AdvancedSetup, excellent idea!

When I talk to myself, I say "hello brain."

[NewTricks]

After a thorough investigation of settings in Spotify - both desktop & mobile I've learned a thing or two:

1. The user must go into settings each and every time to set it to Private Listening.

2. This setting expires after 6 hours.

Otherwise, wherever you go, pop ups will follow with a nearby listener's name, asking if you want to join them. IMO completely bizarre and absurd (for a certain segment of the population).

I'll skip the emojis.

[AdvancedSetup]

They're trying to grow by any marketing they can. So difficult to get away from it today from everyone