I used to pay for Pandora, and I've used Spotify along with a few others. Yeah, the YouTube music app is a little quirky, but it's improved lately. Because YouTube Music can play music that is uploaded by random users instead of only the artists or their labels, I can listen to a lot of obscure (and old) stuff that I can't find as easily anywhere else. I actually really appreciate whatever 'algorithm' it uses to suggest new music to me too. I've found more new, interesting music via YouTube music than I have via any other service. The rate with which other services promote big label garbage music for the masses seems more stark than it does on YouTube. I think the YT Music app is pretty decent considering that I can listen to nearly any music ever made without having to pay any more than $10 per month ($15 in my case since I have the family plan - and yeah, no commercials on regular YouTube is pretty great too).
Lemme know if anyone else has had better success being introduced to new music via a service other than YouTube though. I'd be interested in trying that too.
This process has been in place for over a month. You needn't take my word for it. You'll find a lot of other discussion of it on the web. Take this one, for example; this is the game and the scenario I described here, with accounts of the issue from people other than me:
I'm not trolling.:( I didn't really have any karma to spare since I don't comment a lot. This situation shouldn't be hard to believe. It's documented. Facebook honestly challenged me for this info because I had a new account - and probably because my wife signed in from the same device.
Also, they have my mobile phone number and Visa credit card number on file. I don't understand why they couldn't have just verified my identity via those means.
I've never even posted anything strange on Facebook (or much of anything at all). I don't know why they singled me out.
They put me through this 'take a picture of yourself' process not long ago since I'm a new Facebook user and since my wife signed onto Facebook from my device after I did. I suppose they figured I was a fake account set up by my wife. Who knows.
So, I took a picture of myself. I took an honest, clear, at the moment, simple picture of me smiling from my desk. I didn't even understand what was going on; I just went along with it. I guess the picture wasn't good enough because they immediately banned me. I had to send them another photo of me, a photo of my driver license, and a photo of my Passport through their appeals system to get re-enabled. The whole process took about three days and they never apologized or explained themselves.
Facebook is required as an identity provider for a particular game I play. It's the only reason I have a Facebook account, and I'm unhappy about it. I guess I like the game well enough to put up with it, so I guess I deserve this.
Is anyone concerned that if Ajit Pai (the FCC chair) and his financial backers get their way, the only distinguishing factor between broadcast TV and an internet package will be the IP protocol?
I dread a ‘free/low cost Internet’ with the caveat that you can only visit ISP approved sources (like their own commercial ridden streaming platform and Facebook), and eventually, enough people will find it sufficient that the cost of equal access internet packages will become prohibitively priced. I’m concerned that Google, Apple, Facebook, MPAA, et al will even concede to this for the sake of controlling the narrative and keeping consumers away from what they judge as ‘fake news’ or ‘pirate sites’ (with true and legal but contrary perspectives and content conveniently lumped in with honestly fake or pirated info).
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I used to pay for Pandora, and I've used Spotify along with a few others. Yeah, the YouTube music app is a little quirky, but it's improved lately. Because YouTube Music can play music that is uploaded by random users instead of only the artists or their labels, I can listen to a lot of obscure (and old) stuff that I can't find as easily anywhere else. I actually really appreciate whatever 'algorithm' it uses to suggest new music to me too. I've found more new, interesting music via YouTube music than I have via any other service. The rate with which other services promote big label garbage music for the masses seems more stark than it does on YouTube. I think the YT Music app is pretty decent considering that I can listen to nearly any music ever made without having to pay any more than $10 per month ($15 in my case since I have the family plan - and yeah, no commercials on regular YouTube is pretty great too).
Lemme know if anyone else has had better success being introduced to new music via a service other than YouTube though. I'd be interested in trying that too.
If only staring at the sun could fry the reproductive organs instead of the eyes.
This process has been in place for over a month. You needn't take my word for it. You'll find a lot of other discussion of it on the web. Take this one, for example; this is the game and the scenario I described here, with accounts of the issue from people other than me:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FFBra...
I'm not trolling. :( I didn't really have any karma to spare since I don't comment a lot. This situation shouldn't be hard to believe. It's documented. Facebook honestly challenged me for this info because I had a new account - and probably because my wife signed in from the same device.
Yes, I'm sure. The behavior was the exact process described here and on many other tech sites.
Also, they have my mobile phone number and Visa credit card number on file. I don't understand why they couldn't have just verified my identity via those means.
I've never even posted anything strange on Facebook (or much of anything at all). I don't know why they singled me out.
They put me through this 'take a picture of yourself' process not long ago since I'm a new Facebook user and since my wife signed onto Facebook from my device after I did. I suppose they figured I was a fake account set up by my wife. Who knows.
So, I took a picture of myself. I took an honest, clear, at the moment, simple picture of me smiling from my desk. I didn't even understand what was going on; I just went along with it. I guess the picture wasn't good enough because they immediately banned me. I had to send them another photo of me, a photo of my driver license, and a photo of my Passport through their appeals system to get re-enabled. The whole process took about three days and they never apologized or explained themselves.
Facebook is required as an identity provider for a particular game I play. It's the only reason I have a Facebook account, and I'm unhappy about it. I guess I like the game well enough to put up with it, so I guess I deserve this.
Is anyone concerned that if Ajit Pai (the FCC chair) and his financial backers get their way, the only distinguishing factor between broadcast TV and an internet package will be the IP protocol?
I dread a ‘free/low cost Internet’ with the caveat that you can only visit ISP approved sources (like their own commercial ridden streaming platform and Facebook), and eventually, enough people will find it sufficient that the cost of equal access internet packages will become prohibitively priced. I’m concerned that Google, Apple, Facebook, MPAA, et al will even concede to this for the sake of controlling the narrative and keeping consumers away from what they judge as ‘fake news’ or ‘pirate sites’ (with true and legal but contrary perspectives and content conveniently lumped in with honestly fake or pirated info).