May I suggest quitting streaming entirely? 🙂 you can just buy whatever music you want in the original version and slowly build your own censor-free library. I’ve been doing this for a year now and I would never go back.

Why people are still using Spotify in 2025 (into 2026) is beyond me. Sure it’s convenient… as convenient and readily available as dog shit from the street, I’d say.

ah yes. It has a certain “je ne sais quoi” 👌

“An old white privileged men verbally scolds other old white privileged men, but only mildly”

Not to nitpick but like, if Halloween comes from a contraction of "All hollows eve", Hallow-e'en, then it should be called Jesuseen—which definitely rolls better.

not trying to be obnoxious or anything, all I'm saying is that people may not be achieving what they want by simply ditching Google services but keep using Android.

Yeah no, I kno. You could not use any Google service, but Android is still developed by Google—I mean Android as the OS—which is done behind closed doors. So Google still befits from u using Android and could still be used to gather and sell ur data just by using your Android operated phone.

Wait, isn't Android also Google? I think—haven't verified this myself—that Google's spywares are deeply interwoven with Android. Sadly, I don't see any alternatives to a phone OS, HarmonyOS maybe? but that's essentially Huawei… so 🤷

If by "explorer" you mean person who scammed money out of the Spanish crown to go about looking for places to pillage, then yeah, I guess.

yeah… no thank you.

If you MUST use a streaming service, from what I’ve seen, Tidal is at least a bit better for artists and consumers. But you can also still buy music from any artist from iTunes—yeah I know what Tim Apple did, but hey, the lesser of evils.