why don't you guys scrobble?
From a privacy standpoint, i guess. I want to support open scrobbling with listenbrainz and the account isn't directly linked to a real acc. Why shouldn't I/ why don't you?
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From a privacy standpoint, i guess. I want to support open scrobbling with listenbrainz and the account isn't directly linked to a real acc. Why shouldn't I/ why don't you?
Social engineering. The more information they have about you, the easier you are to immitate.
The threat isn't in any one piece of information about you; it's in the corpus of knowledge, the profile they can build. Your tastes in music - at the granularity of not only what you listen to, but how much, and at what times - can help narrow down:
These are just the things I can tyink of off the top of my head, and I'm not in infosec.
Depends on how much you let them link it back to you, but you're absolutely right: social media is a privacy nightmare. It can be mitigated; pick a Lemmy instance that doesn't require an email, and don't give out any identifying information, or just lurk. Many of us have multiple accounts on different servers, with carefully segregated personas. You do what you can; OP asked why (or why not) scrob. I see no reason to give out that information, only to give a company more information they can sell.
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They sell (sold?) the recommendation API. When you scrobble, last.fm got to build a corpus of data they could make recommendations from.
In totalitarian countries, those who listen to certain types of music are persecuted, because it links them with demografic that can be threatening to the regime. Even if your country is not totalitarian now, the existence of this data could be potentionally harmful to you in the future (just like any data, really).
Yeah, it's great to be safe in your country. I enjoy it too, fortunately. But it's not the same everywhere.
In quite a few countries some genres of music are actually illegal. Nazi music in France, most of western music in Iran, ...
The fuck is a scrobble
https://listenbrainz.org/?redirect=false
That page doesn't mention scrobbling
Sry https://listenbrainz.org/about/ but the term is only used therd, not defined.
I do. While I could've self-hosted it easily, I'm just consciously OK with it being public.
I scrobble to a self-hosted maloja instance. No fear of your data ever disappearing if a service goes down!
You could scrobble to listenbrainz as well. Why not supporting it?
My data stays with me. I support Musicbrainz itself plenty
Why would I care what other people are listening to?
If you listen to X and there is another guy listening to X and Y, one could recommend Y to you. Not only that, you actually have an influence which artist is at the top. You get a database of your listens and anyone, including you, can have a look at mass audio scrobble data.
I just started scrobbling with Listenbrainz. I do it through an anonymous account, and the scrobbling comes through my self hosted music server.
Iโm trying it out to see if I like the recommendations. If I do Iโll consider it a fair trade off in privacy for now.
Why should I?