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Cake day: August 6th, 2024

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  • Reasons everywhere to leave reddit, Twitter and even YouTube (who we all probably thought they couldn’t ruin their reputation).

    And yet the masses won’t. They care too much about bots inflating their follow numbers and people with a community don’t want to make an effort to keep it outside of the platform. Twitter is at its worst it’s ever been but that doesn’t seem to matter to anyone.


  • I’m not 100% sure we both are talking about the same things but I’m going to assume you mean playing songs on Spotify and then having your phones lockscreen display that song.

    The answer to that is UI APIs, your phone likely exposed APIs to developers who make apps for your phone. They can use these system APIs to tell your phone’s music display UI thing what song you are playing and what the buttons (next, prev, stop/play should do)

    These APIs are client side but I wouldn’t be surprised if they phoned home in some way.

    An example of this could be that the internal UI API may phone home to tell Google that a client is choosing Spotify as their music player.

    That being said I don’t know if this is practical or likely. It is possible and doable though.