The annual summary of your listening habits has become a phenomenon – but aside from being a marketing wheeze, Wrapped doesn’t always reflect what we truly love
On the one hand, better you know what they collect about you than not. And as long as you use a streaming service they’re collecting data on you.
On the other hand, streaming services are inherently wasteful and lead to pointless and excessive power usage which contributes to climate change, not to mention the privacy concerns, all of which could have been avoided by reasonably priced buy-once-own-forever media.
I’m not sure I agree with the power usage argument. Even for streaming services, all the ones I’m familiar with will cache songs you listen to frequently on your device (which they’re financially incentivized to do to reduce bandwidth) and isn’t consuming any more power than buy-once-own-forever. And if you’re comparing to physical media I’d assume it is far better, since you’re saving all the energy to acquire materials to create the media, write to it, package it, and ship it.
On the one hand, better you know what they collect about you than not. And as long as you use a streaming service they’re collecting data on you.
On the other hand, streaming services are inherently wasteful and lead to pointless and excessive power usage which contributes to climate change, not to mention the privacy concerns, all of which could have been avoided by reasonably priced buy-once-own-forever media.
I’m not sure I agree with the power usage argument. Even for streaming services, all the ones I’m familiar with will cache songs you listen to frequently on your device (which they’re financially incentivized to do to reduce bandwidth) and isn’t consuming any more power than buy-once-own-forever. And if you’re comparing to physical media I’d assume it is far better, since you’re saving all the energy to acquire materials to create the media, write to it, package it, and ship it.