r/truespotify • u/gebnaim • 1d ago

Question Why tf do I have politics on my Spotify?

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I swear I saw the president on my home page before I saw Vance pop up on my search feed.
US (Boston) based, what is this? And why do I have politics on my music listening app?
Anyone know when these features were rolled out?

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u/scrappy0705 19h ago

i turned off all the videos in spotify and turned off the create button too , my explore page is clean af

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u/Ancient_Substance152 1d ago

Because the owners of Spotify are the bad guys and are trying to influence you into consuming distraction politics.

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u/glamaz0n_bitch Power User 1d ago

The recommendations are based on your listening history—podcasts you previously listened to. Long press on them and click not interested.

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u/gebnaim 1d ago

Thanks for the response! Never listened to a single podcast on Spotify… disappointing that Spotify is resorting to gimmicks like this.

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u/LittlestWarrior 1d ago

... what? They show podcasts that they believe that people will listen to. Spotify has had an algorithmic content recommendation feed for a long time now.

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u/bisexualspy 17h ago

if you’ve never listened to a podcast it likely will show you random things that might interest you because there is no algorithm set yet

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u/LittlestWarrior 17h ago

Sure. What i’m confused about is why they think it’s strange to be served political content. Politics are one of the primary concerns of life in democratic countries.

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u/bisexualspy 17h ago

genuinely the least surprising thing to be served if i’m honest. i don’t get it either. maybe they’re non-american and receiving american content?

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u/LittlestWarrior 16h ago

OP says they're Boston-based. To be honest, they come across as the "apolitical" type, which annoys me, hence my comment. 🙃

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u/ThreadedPommel 19h ago

That's not entirely true because mine keeps trying to push fitness videos which I have zero interest in

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u/saiaupito 19h ago

that's not entirely true though because ive listened to max 5 minutes of a single meditation podcast (it didnt work for me lol) and its shown me political suggestions on my podcast feed too . my reddit is very political which leads me to assume they do cross-app personalization . i don't know for sure but i do know other apps do it like etsy and Pinterest unless you manually turn it off in your settings

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u/hofmann419 12h ago

Could also be location based.

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u/Brau96_ 18h ago

We need an option to get rid of podcast from the Spotify home all together, I hate that.

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u/ed2417 16h ago

I'll go even further and say they should let me pick Music as my home page. I'm on Spotify to listen to music. Not interested in the rest of the content.

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u/ahbets14 15h ago

Oh no JD bad

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u/Tiktokbadsupport 12h ago

when i pir​ate music i dont have any politics or bs seems like ​pi​ra​cy wins again

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u/alttabbins 9h ago

You've mentioned you don't listen to anything political. Spotify generally defaults you to what's popular, and politics are popular for podcasts.