Probably throw in a bit of “just world” delusion in the mix, to make things worse.

Happy to help!

This is spot on (pun intended).

No, you don’t need that. You want it because it’s convenient and we live in a consumerist society where everything “needs” to be “frictionless”. Intentionally clicking on an artist’s bandcamp page to listen to a recommendation is fine. It’s a lot easier than mail order or taking the bus to the record store to buy a copy.

I get what you’re saying, but we need to question the parameters of the challenges more often.

What do you mean by “they control the app fully”? Something like https://github.com/abba23/spotify-adblock will let you run the app without ads, which kinda contradicts the idea they control the app fully.

The president of peace and all that.

We all agree this is just distraction and the arbitrary nonsense is really the point: “we make up what is true” is what they are trying to show.