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Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way (www.wired.com)

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Visits to music piracy websites went up more than 13 percent last year, a new report says. The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.

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[-] Thanks4Nothing@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That surprises me, but I suppose it had to work for some listeners or they wouldn't have gotten it past testing. I have even tried clearing my listen history and starting over - still comes up with country and (going to clarify) 'metal' . I like rock and alternative and some forms of pop, as well as a bit of hip hop. cannot fathom why it suggests what it does.

[-] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Do you ever thumb down anything, or do you just skip the stuff you don't like?

[-] Thanks4Nothing@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Every time. I am not sure it actually changes anything. I have submitted feedback and bug reports to YTM as well. Just generic replies.

[-] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I feel you. Feels like the algorithm just does whatever now, on main YouTube and Shorts it is awful as well, constantly showing me the same 5 shorts and recommending me channels I have asked to "not recommend" multiple times. No amount of disliking and clicking "Not Interested" seems to help, at least not for longer than a day.

[-] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I dunno, sorry to hear about your experience. I've never had a thumb downed song come back up, not ever. And it absolutely affects what kinds of things come up in my radios.

[-] beefsquatch@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

I never thumbs up or down and I find the recommended albums and "Mixed for your" playlists are pretty accurate. I hate that my grandfathered price went up last December tho