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Porn on Spotify Is Infiltrating the Platform’s Top Podcast Charts (www.bloomberg.com)

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These programs don’t contain video but are sexually explicit with show or episode titles often marked by the creator as “NSFW,” or “not safe for work.” The creators sometimes instruct their fans to rate the content poorly on purpose so that Spotify doesn’t detect it. They also sometimes ask listeners not to report the shows if they don’t like what they’re hearing or seeing. When I reached out, Spotify also removed these programs for violating the platform’s terms of use.

Sexually explicit material has persisted on Spotify for years, but the issue resurfaced in December when a Reddit user noticed the service’s algorithm recommending porn. Some users on the videos I spotted this week also commented. Why, they wondered, were they being served this content when searching for music?

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[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Friendly reminder that archive.is is antagonistic to VPN users. I can't read this story via either link.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you know of a different archival service that’s popular enough to carry this kind of content then I’m open to suggestions. By the time I post this stuff archive.is already has a copy but other ones I check don’t.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

ghostarchive is my preferred method. Usually only takes 1-2 minutes.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It’s still a bit hit or miss at the time I’m posting stuff. If I submit news for archival I’m getting an archive of a paywall very often. It happens with archive.is too but not that frequently.

I’m putting this for everyone’s convenience but I also don’t want to make a job for myself out of this.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago

That's fair. Posting the original source and letting the rest of us figure out how to get to the story with our own methods is perfectly fine.

[–] SteevyT@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is it just archive.is that's an issue, or do all the archive.whatevers have the same issue. I tend to use archive.ph.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They are all synonyms for archive.today

whether it is .ph, .vn, .is, .md

Try any of their URL's but just change the TLD and you will see that page is always archived on all of them.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago

Archive.ph suffers from the same problem.